Quotes About Determination

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

I wasn't a very highly recruited guy out of high school... It's always a chip I've had on my shoulder.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting.

I faced failure with my first film, 'Khamoshi.' All of us have our highs and lows, except Lata Mangeshkar.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

I think there are lot more lows in an athletes career than the highs, but you've got to be bale to take them on the chin.

For me, 'Sultan' was like a resurrection. I think my career was almost dead. You go through these lows and highs in life, especially in a film career and you live with your chin up.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

Once I lose focus that's when I'm going to go tumbling down the hill.

For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster.

Listen, running against Senator Graham is indeed a tough climb, but it is equally a hill worth climbing. I've faced things people have deemed impossible my entire life, and this is yet another journey where I prove that in America, the impossible is always possible.

I really want to train Hillary Clinton.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS

Do or do not, there is no try.

If you want to be successful in a particular field, perseverance is one of the key qualities.

No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours

Do. Or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

At length she gently pushed me away, and with the words, Go, my son, and do something worth doing, turned back, and, entering the cottage, closed the door behind her. I felt very desolate as I went. CHAPTER

Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to be done, and rendering it impossible for him who makes it wait, ever to know what to believe.

Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true sort is just as needful to the character of a woman as of a man.