Jane Goodall Quotes

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

All my life, people have been underestimating me.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.