Julia Quinn Quotes

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want and going after it.

What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'