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Quotes About Ambition

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
~ William Sanderson
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
~ Derek Jeter
Yes, I don't have any talent. That's why I work hard.
~ Sandara Park
You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
~ Carol S. Dweck
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
~ Gordon Parks
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
~ William Moulton Marston
Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
~ Zaha Hadid
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
~ Ursula Burns
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
~ Isaac Newton
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
~ Dr. Dre
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
~ Bill Gates
You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
~ Rob Zombie
You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.
~ James Franco
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.
~ Jami Gertz
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
~ Larry Page
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.
~ Brandon Stanton
Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.
~ Deborah Meaden