Charles Bukowski Quotes

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.

I really appreciate her passion for work, which has not waned over the years. Ekta works as if it is the first day of her struggle.

We've had to pay to play. We've had to borrow kit. We've had to train on a Friday night. Maybe a lot of boys, given that opportunity, would slip away, whereas we've had the mentality to go, 'I really want this. I'm going to show that I can do this.'

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Anything worth having has its price.