Quotes About Determination

Just praise is not enough; you've got to get work to survive.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

It was so hard to survive - moving so much, not having many friends. But I loved my skating.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

I will never create a romantic angle to survive on a game show.

I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.

'The Will To Survive' is a great track.

Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

A driver has to be strong in his mind anyway to survive in this sport. And if he is mentally not ready at 17, then he is also not ready at 20.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.