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

Quote by Sylvester Stallone

Topics: Sylvester Stallone Quotes

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac...

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac...

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains...

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains...

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

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

I'm a patriot of the heart.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was...

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was...

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the...

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the...

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes,...

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes,...

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up...

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up...

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of...

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of...

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now...

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now...

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building,...

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building,...

I love being verbal in films.

I love being verbal in films.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that...

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that...

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

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

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

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

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for...

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for...

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to...

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to...