Quotes About Success

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.

If you look at anyone's career, there are times when you have hard times. Even the best players have to struggle through things.

After my debut, I had to struggle for seven years to establish myself in the industry.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I love acting, so I don't feel that I have ever struggled.

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.