Quotes About Ambition

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Dreams do not work unless you do.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

Do more than dream. Work.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.