Quotes About Ambition

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.

I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'