John Ruskin Quotes

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

I know it's impossible. But I know I'll do it!

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

The only failure is not trying.

Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.

There is no excuse for not trying.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.