Sam Elliott Quotes

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

If there's a goal, you can't stop me. I'll put my head down. I'll have tunnel vision and I'll go until I get it.