Quotes About Success

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Do not seek prizes that aren't worth getting.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.