Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

My career has been going better than expected, and I'm grateful.

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

I'm fully aware of how lucky I am to do the work I do. I work really, really hard, and there are a lot of privileges and perks that come with the job.

I went into NXT with no expectations. That's what I was told when I was hired - have no expectations, just do the best I could - and that's always what I've done for the last fifteen years. That's what I did, and you know, it's obviously working out pretty good.

It's good to be rewarded with all the training and emotions I've gone through.

The very fact that people make an effort to search and know more about me is a testament that I am doing my job well.

The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.

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.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.