Quotes About Ambition

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

I just want to do really good work.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

A lot of people don't want to put that work in they just want to be famous.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

No one's dream job involves a kiosk.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I think I'm a workaholic, but I'm a workaholic that is loving his work.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.