Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

3. “Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

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

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Persistence Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Effort Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

5. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Character Quotes

6. “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you 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!”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Failure Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Adversity Quotes

8. “I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind and furious optimism.”

— Sylvester Stallone

9. “Success is usually the culmination of controlling failures.”

— Sylvester Stallone

10. “The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Grit Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

12. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Karma Quotes, Anger Quotes

13. “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Victory Quotes

14. “Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!”

— Sylvester Stallone

15. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Love Is Quotes, Love Quotes for Him, Love Quotes for Husband

16. “Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Destiny Quotes

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

— Sylvester Stallone

Featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

18. “Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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20. “Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, ‘Oh, my God, another rep.’ I said, ‘Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.’”

— Sylvester Stallone

21. “Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!”

— Sylvester Stallone

22. “The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.”

— Sylvester Stallone

23. “I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.”

— Sylvester Stallone

24. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

25. “You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.”

— Sylvester Stallone

26. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

28. “You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.”

— Sylvester Stallone

29. “When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.”

— Sylvester Stallone

30. “When you’re pushed, killing is as easy as breathing.”

— Sylvester Stallone

31. “The church is the gym of the soul.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

33. “I’m not right wing, I’m not left wing. I love my country.”

— Sylvester Stallone

34. “The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That’s why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.”

— Sylvester Stallone

35. “If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours – see what happens.”

— Sylvester Stallone

36. “Clothing is the first step to building a character.”

— Sylvester Stallone

37. “Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.”

— Sylvester Stallone

38. “If I’d succeeded right away at acting I wouldn’t have sought out writing.”

— Sylvester Stallone

39. “Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.”

— Sylvester Stallone

40. “When boxers are in the ring, they’re simple. It’s when the fight is over, that’s when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That’s the problem.”

— Sylvester Stallone

41. “You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.”

— Sylvester Stallone

42. “Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.”

— Sylvester Stallone

43. “Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, ‘Do I really need this?’ And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It’s not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.”

— Sylvester Stallone

44. “I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

45. “Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.”

— Sylvester Stallone

46. “I’m usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don’t know why, but I figure it’s because physically I don’t look intelligent.”

— Sylvester Stallone

47. “When crossing someone’s borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

49. “Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.”

— Sylvester Stallone

50. “I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.”

— Sylvester Stallone