Quotes About Determination

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.