Quotes About Determination

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.

A lot of people say, 'Do you feel a lot of pressure?' There's not that much pressure, to be honest.

On any longball, people try to outjump each other. I don't mind a big jump, but to be honest, the only thing you have to do is fight for the spot where the ball is going to land.

Around 16 years old, when I was in Formula 3 and looking at potential options for the future, that's when I realized that Formula One was in the picture. But to be honest, I really just took it year by year throughout my karting years and stuff.

To be honest, I don't feel pressure. I honestly don't feel pressure.

I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn't take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.

I have to be honest: in my career, I've really had to fight to come in the middle again. A lot of managers told me, 'You are way more comfortable as a winger than as a midfielder,' but I always kept my trust and confidence in what I knew about my qualities.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

There are two kinds of students: those who study and work to survive, while others who want to be achievers.

For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.