Quotes About Ambition

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

I love 'The View,' so when you're living the dream, it's not work.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.