Christopher Fry Quotes

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

To the stars through thorns.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there's nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional

Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.