Quotes About Ambition

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'

People know I work hard.

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.

The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

I did work hard at auditions, and three years at RADA isn't like a walk in the park. And then it takes a lot of sacrifices, giving certain things up in order to audition, in order to do a play, whatever it may be.

Work hard, no matter how much recognition you get.

Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.

You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.

I think I'm a guy who is going to come in and work hard from Day One.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.

You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.

My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

This is a generous country that realizes people want to work hard.

No one can predict the future, but what I do know is that myself and my team work hard every day to make sure that my vision, my sound, and my brand reach their full potential.