Quotes About Success

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

[Out To Sea] was like a dream come true for me, because I got to work with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau], who were unbelievable.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.