Quotes About Determination

People do lots of things all the time that aren't guaranteed safe. They decide it's worth the risk.

In a lot of ways, Mom is kind of badass.

I guess I have to thank Shupe and all that marching for something, because my butt is as springy as a bag of Gummi Bears.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!