Roisin Murphy Quotes

Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.

The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

For me, it's ambition. You want more, always. When you achieve one step you need to get the second step.

I don't want to be complacent.

I'm a very results-oriented person. I want to see us move the ball forward.

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

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

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.