Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

I've gone through all of it: I've literally heard every single name in the book be told to me. So don't be discouraged by anyone as long as you're confident in yourself, and just keep doing what you're doing.

I'm a guy who is going to go out there and do his best, and I'm a guy who has always gone out there and proved people wrong.

Even before I really started, no one said I would make it. But I always had belief.

I was one of those kids that my parents had faith in me and I had faith in myself. Anything anybody told me negative, I'd just brush it off and keep moving.

I always believed in myself when I was not playing much.

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.

Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.