Zoe Cassavetes Quotes

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to do something, even if people are saying I can't do it, I will achieve it.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

I've learned that it's not a straight road to the top, and there are going to be setbacks along the way. You have to be patient, and you have to keep believing in what you're doing. And keep believing in yourself, no matter what is happening. And then eventually you'll get there.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong because I have a lot of people to prove wrong, a lot of doubters.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it.

I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. Keep proving people wrong and proving myself right.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.