Anthony Hopkins Quotes

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament.

People might not view me as competitive as I really am.

I am who I am. Chip on my shoulder? I was just born with the mentality to go win.

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

She would not stop until she beat the devil.

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

I don't care who I have to fight! If he rips my arms out, I'll kick him to death! If he rips my legs off, I'll bite him to death! If he rips my head off, I'll stare him to death! And if he gouges out my eyes, I'll curse him from the grave! Even If i'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back from Orochimaru!

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.