Sylvester Stallone Quotes

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. 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. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Don't discuss your dreams. Pursue them!

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

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 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.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

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

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.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

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

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

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.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."