Quotes About Ambition

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

I am always a big believer that if you work hard enough and you work out of passion, a person can do anything.

I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go.

Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

Stay disciplined, work hard, always believe in your dreams and go after them.

Work hard at . . . something.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

When you love what you do, you tend to work harder anyway

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.