Quotes About Determination

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.

At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, through practice and experience and determination, you will get to the end.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

After a level, it does not matter if you are capable to do 100 push-ups, but how to take action in a do-or-die situation - saving your country while on mission.

I've been put down, pushed aside, knocked out.

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

When I'm pushed, I shove.

I never fought because of my father. I started to box before he pushed me. It had nothing to do with him.

I started off as a right-winger, but my coaches pushed me further and further back. So much so that I ended up in defence, because I wasn't good with my hands and there was nowhere else to go! So they put me there and that's when I found my position.

I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life. I've taken every opportunity, pushed myself in ways I'm not sure I knew were even possible, I've made the best of my life and career. So yes, I do feel proud of myself.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.