Marianne Faithfull Quotes

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

You want to be the biggest, the greatest. I hope I can be that big in England.

I'm going to show everyone my real potential and I know I have the potential to be the best in the world.

I've never thought that being Scottish should mean there was any kind of barrier to me getting where I wanted to go, and I still feel like I can keep improving.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

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

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I want to reach my full potential.

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

I know what I need to work on; I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.

For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'