Regina Brett Quotes

If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

Never give up on what you really want to do

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.

I've always tried to make the impossible turn possible for me.

It was never an option to not succeed.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.