Joss Whedon Quotes

If I can take it, I can make it.

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

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.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

We shall either find a way or make one.

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying.

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.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.