Ali Smith Quotes

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If you're good, you'll get work. And if I've got food in my fridge and clothes on my back, I'll be happy.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

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.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.