Quotes About Achievement

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

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

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

What better reward than to see others excited by your work?

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't 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.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

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

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

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.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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

I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.