Paid My Dues Quotes

23 Paid My Dues quotes by 20 unique authors

• People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my… — Larry Holmes
• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues — Sugar Ray Leonard
• What the hell, I paid my dues. — Fuzzy Zoeller
• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set. — Victoria Pratt
• I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. — Colin Firth
• Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers... — Big KRIT
• I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it.… — Ronnie Van Zant
• I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. — Richard O'Brien
• I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that. — Rita Ora
• Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. — Bob Dylan
• Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut
• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an… — Annie Lennox
• I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm… — Emily Mortimer
• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time… — Chuck Norris
• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. — Mike Tyson
• This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… — Abraham Verghese
• I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning… — Silas Weir Mitchell
• I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. — David Quammen
• People all of a sudden just see me and hear me having hit records and it seems to have come out of the blue. But… — Mariah Carey
• Someone said I never paid any dues. I feel my whole life was struggling, because we were poor. We were alone, we had nothing--no security.… — Mariah Carey
• Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer But I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers — Big KRIT
• Karma caught up with me, It wasn't fun but I paid my dues and got a receipt. — Desmond Fouche

Who Wrote These Paid My Dues Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 Paid My Dues Quotes as follows:

• 2 Paid My Dues Quotes by Mariah Carey
• 2 Paid My Dues Quotes by Big KRIT
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Victoria Pratt
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Sugar Ray Leonard
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Silas Weir Mitchell
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Ronnie Van Zant
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Rita Ora
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Richard O'Brien
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Mike Tyson
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Mark Vonnegut
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Larry Holmes
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Fuzzy Zoeller
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Emily Mortimer
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Desmond Fouche
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by David Quammen
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Colin Firth
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Chuck Norris
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Bob Dylan
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Annie Lennox
• 1 Paid My Dues Quote by Abraham Verghese