Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

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

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

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

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

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

We always may be what we might have been.

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.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.