Bette Davis Quotes

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

It's so important to find what you love. If you love it, you'll excel at it.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

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

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The joy of life is in the work.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing