Gertrude Ederle Quotes

If you want to do something, you find a way.

No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

If there's an opportunity to go out there and show what I can do, I'm going to do it.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

If I want something, I go after it.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.