Quotes About Ambition

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

I always want to work.

The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?