Dav Pilkey Quotes

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I'm proud of my life.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

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

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.

Failures in film do not mean much to me because at the end of the day, I am successful in my life.

You never really get to be good at anything.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.