Candace Bushnell Quotes

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I have achieved everything that I ever wanted to accomplish in this game and more so, for me, I have been fulfilled.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

I would like to be as successful as Ian Botham was, but if I'm doing anything, I'm doing it as myself.

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.