Quotes About Determination

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

That's how people get better. Keep progressing, keep competing, and good things will happen.

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

It's definitely been a progression, but I always knew I could be a great fighter. I could feel it inside of myself.

I've been doing all my progression in the gym, in a very controlled scenario. It's been a confidence booster.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

I never doubted my football, it's just a lot of things happened that prohibited me from playing.

I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

I get beat up on every project.

I put my all into whatever project I do.

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.