Benny Goodman Quotes

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 want somethin', go get it. Period.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

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

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

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

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

We shall either find a way or make one.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn't go around the rock, I'd find a way to go over it or under it or through it.

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

You have to fight for the things you want.

Where will wants not, a way opens.

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

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Walls don't fall without effort.

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.