Lee Child Quotes

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I think I've done a lot and I've proven myself.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

I am proud of what I've done.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

The facts prove I deserve to be where I am, and no one can take that away from me, regardless of where I come from.

I just want to be proud of my work.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

I'm just pretty proud of myself.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

I have done good roles. I feel good about myself.

I know I do good work.

I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.

I always wanted to make my parents feel proud of me.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.