Quotes About Success

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

I've been incredibly lucky throughout the beginning stages of my career up 'til now, and so lucky to work with the incredible people I've worked with.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.