My mother always said to me, ...

My mother always said to me, \'You\'re going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can\'t take no for an answer\'.
My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
 Halle Berry

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
 Halle Berry
Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
 Halle Berry
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
 Halle Berry
I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.
 Halle Berry
My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
 Halle Berry