Quotes About Ambition

She knows what she wants, though maybe she doesn't know what will work. But if you don't give her what she wants, she'll spend the rest of her life thinking that that was the one thing that might have worked.

There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret—it was a source of pride.

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.

She was a Tri Delt, majoring in finding a diamond ring.

In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out his plans in a white heat of frustrated eagerness.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

All my life I've wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

But wanting and getting are hard neighbors and bitter friends.

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions? -Ranger

What's on your bucket list?" I asked. "I got six things so far," Grandma said. "First off, I want new breasts. These ones I got are a mess.

I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.

I'm short. I have to think tall.

My philosophy is aim high and fail big.

She'd wanted to grow up to be a superhero, and in a left-turn kind of way she felt like she was on track.

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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?

You want car?' Rena said. 'Artist college? You think I don't know? How you think you pay? So this dress. Pretty dress. Someone gave. But money is . . .' She stopped, struggling to find the words, what money was. Finally, she threw her hands up. 'Money. You want remember, so just remember.

I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?