Quotes About Determination

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

I am proud to be the first British champion, and headlining MSG is a testament to all the hard work.

My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I've accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I want to be tested until my limit.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

You'll be tested every single day.

I think everyone has to have their mettle tested in a tough fight.

When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

In between shooting for 'Awake,' I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for 'Anger Management' actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we weren't really letting any other shows into the mix.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.

As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

As I always say, one of the best things of football is that the game is testing you all the time.