Quotes About Ambition

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.