Quotes About Determination

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.

You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.