Harri Holkeri Quotes

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

I'm always focused.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

Intentions count in your actions.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

There's no abiding success without commitment.