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Daily Inspiration Quote by Nancy Cartwright

"I will not get very far with this attitude"

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A quiet self-check like this lands because it refuses the glamour of the big breakthrough speech. "I will not get very far with this attitude" is the kind of sentence you mutter to yourself after a bad audition, a tense set day, or a moment of petty resentment you know you cant afford. Coming from Nancy Cartwright, an actress whose most famous work is voice performance, it carries an extra edge: in a field where your face may never be recognized, the only thing that reliably travels is your reputation. Attitude becomes currency.

The line is built on blunt, forward motion: "get very far" frames a career as distance, not destiny. No romance, no talent-myth, just trajectory. The subtext is pragmatic self-discipline. It is not confessing weakness so much as correcting course, like catching yourself slipping into entitlement, fear, or cynicism and deciding to reroute before it calcifies. The phrase "this attitude" stays conveniently vague, which is why it works. It can be perfectionism, defensiveness, procrastination, or ego. Listeners can plug in their own.

Culturally, its an antidote to the modern habit of treating mindset as identity. Cartwrights phrasing suggests attitude is adjustable, not sacred. In an industry that rewards resilience as much as artistry, the sentence reads like a survival tool: not motivational fluff, but a small act of self-leadership, delivered with the unshowy honesty of someone who has had to keep going when no one was clapping.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cartwright, Nancy. (2026, January 16). I will not get very far with this attitude. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-will-not-get-very-far-with-this-attitude-84416/

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Cartwright, Nancy. "I will not get very far with this attitude." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-will-not-get-very-far-with-this-attitude-84416/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I will not get very far with this attitude." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-will-not-get-very-far-with-this-attitude-84416/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is a Actress from USA.

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