Leah Remini Quotes

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

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

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.

England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream.

I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

If you have a dream you gotta go on a journey to fulfill that dream.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

No matter what you do, you first have to have a vision... to see your goal, to believe in it, have faith in it and chase it. And then it's fun to chase it. If you don't have a goal or a vision, then you have nothing.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams