Quotes About Achievement

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

It's fun as a coach to work with somebody that has power and that has potential to achieve, really, anything that he wants to achieve. It's just a question of time and how much work they put into it.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Is not every life, every work fine?

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.