Quotes About Ambition

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

nothing seemed impossible in the beginning…

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

the world is hard on ambitious girls

and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end

The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…

Neither should it be for a woman: for we've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her, and meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn't read, run and ride as much as she liked.

El deseo verdadero de cambiar supone tener media batalla ganada.

Money is a needful and precious thing,—and, when well used, a noble thing,—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.

That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Louisa May Alcott

Yes, I remember, but the life I wanted then seems selfish, lonely, and cold to me now. I haven't given up the hope that may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be the better for such experiences and illustrations as these

I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be held in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

I found the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, - marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.