Quotes About Ambition

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. A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

women, they have minds and souls as well as just hearts. they've got ambition and they've got talent as well as just beauty. and i'm so sick of people sayin that love is all a woman is fit for. i'm so sick of it.

CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

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

I want to be great, or nothing.

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.

We all have our own kind of life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. -Jo March

So I did! 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?

My dear girls, 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. 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. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

I advise you to sail away in one of your ships, and never come home again till you have tried your own way.

I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bead is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures. I am content to see Meg begin humbly, for if I am not mistaken, she will be rich in the possession of a good man's heart, and that is better than a fortune.

it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Lounging and larking doesn't pay, observed Jo, shaking her head. I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off.

As she said, she was "fond of luxury," and her chief trouble was poverty.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with

My dear girls 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.

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.

Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean.

Dear, how charming! I hope I shall go abroad some day, but I'd rather go to Rome than the row, said Amy, who had not the remotest idea what the Row was and wouldn't have asked for the world.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence.

Never mind being bashful, it won't last long if you keep going