Peter Jones Quotes

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

I like struggle.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

I've been an underdog all my life.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

For me, I'm an undrafted guy, so every single year was a battle.

To choose always the hardest.

I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to go through some adversity to get to where they are at so, I guess, we all do.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.