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Quotes About Ambition

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.
~ Tim Harford
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.
~ Tina Maze
I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.
~ Tom Ford
I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
~ Tom Ford
I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.
~ Tom Freston
I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.
~ Tommy Wiseau
I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.
~ Tommy Wiseau
Maroon 5 is crazy to me, I would love to work with them.
~ Tony Sunshine
This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
~ Treat Williams
I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.
~ Trina Robbins
I just work. I'm doing shows, and I get love everywhere I go, so I would say I'm doing something right. I don't really sit here and dwell on it. I just do what I gotta do, and keep moving.
~ Trinidad James
The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.
~ Tucker Max
I really wanted to work and become independent.
~ Victoria Abril
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
~ Vikram Seth
Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
~ W. H. Auden
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
~ Willard Wigan
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
~ William Dean Howells
Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
~ William Feather
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
~ William Monahan
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
~ Yani Tseng
It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.
~ Yukimi Nagano
It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
~ Zadie Smith
If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
~ Zoe Leonard