Quotes About Determination

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

It's time to WAKE UP and make empowering choices.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.