Quotes About Determination

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.