Quotes About Determination

I had six surgeries on my left toe and another six on the right toe.

I'm not about trying to hand pick my fights and tip toe around the competition.

If I can get an opportunity where no one will interfere and keep stepping on my toes, it's just a matter of time.

I saw singer Pink doing aerial flips during one of her performances at Grammy Awards. It got me inspired, and I started doing it, too. It has made me very flexible. I couldn't even touch my toes a few years ago, but now I find myself to be extremely fit.

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, 'I'd better get on my toes again.'

I'm definitely my worst critic. I guess that's good because it keeps you on your toes.

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

I kinda motivate myself and keep me on my toes.

Competition keeps you on your toes, encourages you to do better, so it's actually a must for me.

Whenever I leave 'Strictly' I want to be able to touch my toes.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

You need to push yourself, and in time, everything will come together at the right time.

Once I throw, I immediately know how well I have done, or how badly, from the effort I have put in and the way the rhythm and technique comes together.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I never settled because I wasn't meant to pack toilet rolls or stack shelves.

I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for toilet paper or diapers, I just really wanted to allow myself to go to school, to go to university without waitressing, because when I'm in a school environment I just really like to study and have the best grades and learn as much as I can.

I never saw the light of day at Bouley. I remember I would bring home a roll of toilet paper a week because we got paid so little, if at all.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.