Sylvester Stallone Quotes

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old.

I’m kind of a broken record on keeping marriages together.

If you’re not gonna try, then why are you even alive?

I am the living proof that if you work hard enough you can make it.

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality – that’s the main event.

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.

I believe in giving back and helping out in the community and in the world.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.

I’m a perpetual optimist. Well, the fact that I’m not dead helps.

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners and losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.

I don’t believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.

I think everyone’s nervous to make the wrong movie. Everyone’s nervous to make a bad picture.

I’m more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while… if you keep on walking.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point. Every actor wants to change into a different person, and when you put on a uniform, you become that character.

Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

It’s not about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving.

It’s not about how much you can take, it’s about how much you can endure.

I’m not an action hero; I’m an actor who’s in great shape.

The only difference between past, present, and future is semantics.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their lives. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big.

When you’re scared, when you’re hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you’re going to see what you’re really made of.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and refuse to quit.

I am a sensitive artist. I always want to build bridges and not walls.

When you get to the top of the mountain, pull everyone else up with you.

If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, you’re not hungry.

You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give; it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

You learn more from failure than from success.

The more successful I became, the more free I became to do movies that held a little more social significance, something no actor or director is often allowed to do.

No matter how hard you try, you can’t change your past, but you can always change your future.

I believe there are no shortcuts to success.

I am a big believer in keeping your own identity.

I am not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and refuse to quit.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand, that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I don’t believe in accolades. I think it’s more important to be honest and true to yourself and your work.

I believe people should do what makes them happy. Life is too short to not follow your passion.

I think the way that you have a successful career is to be the best you can be at something that you enjoy.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I believe in having goals and setting high standards for yourself. It’s important to have something to strive for and to work hard to achieve it.