Quotes About Determination

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

Initially I even had to work in a textile firm for a meagre salary of Rs. 400 a month. Then things changed for me when I became an assistant to Shekhar Kapoor.

I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I'll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me in the face all you want, and I'll hit you back.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

I was 16, I just wanted to do something in my life. I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to lose some weight and I went for my first training. In the beginning I didn't know what Muay Thai meant. You know? But I liked it so much, and after six months of training I had my first competition in Poland. I won, and after that I knew that I wanted to do it.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

Thank goodness I was blessed with a hard head.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?

I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.

My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown's father felt that way.

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.

I'm proud of the fact that I can just focus on the bullseye and go. Thank God, I don't have to worry about distractions or veering off course because my focus is very defined. I'm proud of that.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

It's true, I said I would never go down to 115 because I thought I wouldn't be able to make the weight, but thank God we started working on that.

I did so many interviews and auditions for films, and it was just zilch. Nothing I did impressed anybody! I could just feel it. It was always, 'Okay, thank you, Mr. Lloyd.' Then, out of the blue, 'Cuckoo's Nest' came to cast. A casting director who sent me up for different things over the years sent me up for that, and it just clicked.

To my haters: I don't have anything to say to you; you can see how far I've gotten myself. To those who supported me: Thank you, and I will never stop trying to repay you for all of the things you do for me every day.