Quotes About Determination

I am used to coming in second and then all of the sudden finishing in first because nobody expected me to do it. Kind of like David and Goliath, you know. I'm not the giant.

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

I like for Sue Sylvester to be firing on all cylinders.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.

The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.

When you want to win, you are doomed to suffer conflicts.

If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.

Not as many idol stars were acting back then, and I had to suffer a lot of criticisms. However, I still did my best because I did not want to miss the chances that I was given.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I've had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.

I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.