Sophia Loren Quotes

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

I know how to stay focused on a mission.

I know what my goals are, and I always keep that in the forefront of my mind.

When you know what you want, you know where you want to go.

I'm a man on a mission.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

I think it is always tough no matter where you are in your journey. Always staying focused and knowing why you are doing what you are doing.

I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.