Quotes About Determination

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

I think the most important is believing in yourself and being passionate about everything you do in life.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.

I understood that Valek's loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.