Annie Dillard Quotes

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I'm always hustling.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

If you put the work in, and you show that you're willing to work hard, you'll succeed.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.