Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

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

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

I try to be committed, always. When I do something, I like to do it 100 per cent.

That's something I pride myself on, playing every single game.

When I'm going to do something, I go all in.

If I start something I am going to finish it.

I'm kind of a grinder.

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

It gets hard no matter what it is you're doing - school, work - the only way you're going to do it is if you stay consistent and focused.

It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

The only constant I can find is hard work.