Sharon Stone Quotes

Sometimes you don't quite realise what you have achieved until you look back.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

I remember being a kid and saying, 'One day, I'm going to have a ranch. One day, one day, one day.' And now, I'm fighting in the UFC. I'm here making the money, and that one day is here. I can finally go get those things that I want.

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

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

All my childhood dreams have come true.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

Obviously 1,500 is a lot of hits, but I've got to keep going.

I was always motivated to make my parents proud and wait for that one opportunity. Finally, it happened with 'Yevade Subramanyam,' and since then, I have never looked back.

I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.

I won an award when I was 15 and my mum and dad were very proud and so was I but for me, individual things like that aren't as significant as I have been part of so much and there were weeks and months of hard work building up to those pinnacle moments and they can be full of moments of pride.

I still pinch myself when I see myself on 'Match of the Day' - it's at times like that you realise how far you've come.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.