Quotes About Success

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

My parents both had eighth-grade educations. My mother had five kids by the time she was 23, and my father was a truck driver.

Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

It was nothing less than a dream come true shooting with Farah Khan.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

All my dreams came true. There's not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can't imagine that.

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.

I think if people want to go back and look at season two of 'True Blood,' I'm proud of my work in that.

'True Detective' did change my career.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.

I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.

In the business, you're lucky if when you're done you can look on your hand and count the number of true friends you have on one hand. If you can do that, if you have five friends that you can really call friends, you've had a successful career.

'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.

If a film becomes successful, the actor is blamed for being commercial and not having a true love for movies. When we do serious films, we will be blamed for not planning our career properly. I believe that what one should do is to make good cinema and try to make it successful.