Quotes About Determination

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

Theres gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can't, thats when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

What you believe in, is the life you decide.

Acting is a life of rejection.

In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'