Quotes About Determination

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't been fashion then it would have been something else.

Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

I gradually stopped wondering, 'What life do I have?' and began to consider, 'What life can I build?

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!