Quotes About Ambition

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

She could even forget that she had once been considered the girl most likely to become somebody, when she'd turned out to be nobody in particular.

Math plus desire equals who you are.

The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman.

All I wanted was to be somebody else. Was that asking too much? Was that asking for everything?

want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.

A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.

Shakespeare should have prepared her.

The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway

Look what happens when we dream.

Sometimes the dreams that came true are the dreams you never even knew you had

ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.

What if Icarus hadn't hurtled into the sea? What if he'd inherited his parent's inventive bent? What might have wrought?

Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.

But Anne was asking herself why being queen mattered so much, when the chance for true love was hers for the seizing. And always she came back to the argument that the crown was hers for the seizing too. She had never seen marriage alone as an especially fulfilling estate for women. She had always wanted more in life – and more than she had ever dreamed of would soon, God willing, be in her grasp. There was so much that she could accomplish as queen.

All he had wanted, for most of his long reign, was a son to succeed him. For that he had married six times. Would he be proud to see her now, seated in this chair of estate he had once occupied? She hoped so. She