Quotes About Determination

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

I've been fighting my whole life.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.