Morgan Freeman Quotes

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

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.

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.

We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.

There have been a few times when I wondered if I was ever going to take a wicket, but you never give up.

You need to put your head down and... try not to lose hope.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

It matters if you don't just give up.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

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.