Ned Vizzini Quotes

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

Nobody gave me anything. I conquered everything. And I gave them a lot more than they gave me back.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserves success. I have the drive to work. Maybe that's why I've stayed on the fringe.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

My mom's a hustler. She a grinder.