Michael J. Massimino Quotes

Never give up on your dreams.

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams, but nothing in life is easy. If it's something you really want, go after it!

The only thing I'll say, and I'm sure everyone says this, is stick with it. I'm not shy about telling people about the fact that my dream was to go to USC film school when I was growing up in New Jersey. I got rejected five times. You just keep going, keep going, keep going.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I feel like you can hope and dream and wish, but until you do, nothing is going to happen. So whatever you're passionate about, whatever your hopes and dreams are, you have to go full-steam ahead. But of course I have my moments where I'm trying so hard, and it never seems to break through. It's always when you want to give up that something's going to happen, right? So you just can't give up.

You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Corky is the one who never gives up. I never gave up. He faces obstacles, and he couldn't always reach his goals. But he tries to reach his dreams.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

Any goal you have, you just have to set it and never give up and always make sure that you always just follow your dreams.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.