Shania Twain Quotes

I've never been a guy to sit back and look at all my trophies and look at all my awards; that's not me.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I have my dream job. If I was seven years old and you asked me what I'd want to be 30 years from now, I'd say exactly who I am. So, 'rare' and 'lucky' are the exact right words. It took a lot of hard work, and I took a weird route to get here, but man, am I grateful for it.

I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.

I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.

I am very happy for the kind of response I am getting for my work, but there was a lot of hard work that has gone into it.