Quotes About Determination

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.

If you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start.

When I get out, I thought, I am going to wait a while and then I am going to come back to this place, I am going to look at it from the outside and know exactly what's going on in there, and I'm going to stare at those walls and I'm going to make up my mind never to get on the inside of them again.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Love it or leave it

then sit down and write or stand up and write but write no matter what the other people are doing, no matter what they will do to you.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. the nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screams for your blood.

What will you do? Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie. What are you going to call it? Hollywood. Hollywood? Yes...

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.

if you don't have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul.