Quotes About Ambition

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.

He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest—that's what he used to say—and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone

while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.

Walking bores me. I mean, we have to have a goal.

You who had not been allowed to finish tenth grade but sent to be a frightened chambermaid, carried home every week armloads of books from the library rummaging them late at night, insomniac, riffling the books like boxes of chocolates searching for the candied cherries, the nuts, hunting for the secrets, the formulae, the knowledge those others learned that made them shine and never ache.