Quotes About Ambition

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

Dreams don't work unless you do

One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.