ambition Quotes

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

I want to make this world perfect.