Dennis Prager Quotes

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

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 learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.

It's about staying level-headed and being appreciative of the chances I got and the games I played but, at the same time, wanting more.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

Nothing has ever been given to me.

The more you make an effort, the more life gives you things to be grateful for.

My mom did a good job making sure I worked for everything I got. Really, it just helped me realize the real world and how people who don't have everything have to work for stuff.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

I'm so supported, and I'm so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don't feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it... and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I'm learning every day as a mother.

Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.