Quotes About Ambition

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

Work usually follows will.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.