Quotes About Success

I've had a great run. I've been a world champ. I've been a top contender. I've been a poster boy for the organization, for sponsorships, been able to do a lot.

A lot of people that I work with now call me Netflix's poster boy and that makes me so happy as who doesn't want to be.

I am the poster boy for brick-by-brick foundation building. Play a club. Put on a good show for 35 people. Come back. Build your market. Have people talk about you.

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

It's not my goal to beat anybody in particular, it's about achieving what I think my potential is.

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

Harry Potter was my first job.