Quotes About Ambition

Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant—which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Ever since I was a little girl I had wanted to be

Lori says, "Look at this. Your SATs are in the 600s. And you have a 3.8 average this semester. That's really good." "It's an easy school." "No, it isn't." "It's not that big a deal." "It is a big deal, actually. These are applying-to-college stats. Have you thought about that?" "No." "Why not?

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.

a character without ambition, is like love without lust.

Gratë tentojnë drejt një verbërie qejfesh.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

Simon had the awesome charisma of one who was born for greatness; if accompanied by the detestable arrogance of one who knew it.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)

Having failed the Civil Service entrance examinations, he had become – she recalled – a clerk at the London office of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on 31 Lombard Street, at the age of eighteen – one of his 'fellow employees' there had been the young P. G. Wodehouse

He was dying all his life.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

All our dreams begin in youth.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin's Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row.

You humans are the ones who want more. You want the whole world to bow to human desires.