Sissy Spacek Quotes

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.