Quotes about Ambition

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;

Its wonderful to have ambition.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

Perhaps college may be around the bend in the road, but I haven't got to the bend yet and I don't think much about it lest I might grow discontented.

On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves. I went up town and bought five volumes of poetry with it -- Tennyson, Byron, Milton, Longfellow, Whittier. I wanted something I could keep for ever in memory of having arrived.

I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll