Lucy DeVito Quotes

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

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

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'