Viggo Mortensen Quotes

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I just have to continue to attack practice and get better.

Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

I've really tried everything in my power to get my life together.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.