Patti Smith Quotes

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

We shall either find a way or make one.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

You had to fight every inch of the way, that's what made us trailblazers.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

I never let one hand stop me from doing what I needed to do to get down field and win games.

You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.