Quotes About Determination

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I'll fight anyone, at any time!

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

If I had a brick for every time I've repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I'd probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.