Quotes About Ambition

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.