Ambition Quote by Thomas Overbury

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for…

— Gustave Moreau

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the…

— Orison Swett Marden

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

— Jean Giraudoux

“She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention,…

— Rebecca Miller

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so…

— Anonymous

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A godly woman fears the Lord. She seeks His will over the approval of anyone else on earth. Her fear of God makes her…

— Anonymous

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.”

— Elizabeth George