Harriet Tubman Quotes

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Success is a worn down pencil.

It matters if you don't just give up.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.