Jacqueline Susann Quotes

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

Always look at what your goal is. Understand that there are going to be days when you feel like crap. There are going to be days where you feel like "I don't want to do this" but you've got to understand what you're doing it for.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

Even when there was a difficult time for me I was always focused on my job or I was always working hard. That is the only way I think you can achieve something.

I'll focus on my training, no matter who I fight.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

I think the biggest thing is to continue grinding and not let the crowds of people get in the way of you're trying to do.

I just put all my energy into me and focusing on what I'm going to do, and I'll go in there and do that right through the end of the fight until I get the job done.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.

Never give up on whatever you want to do.

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.