Quotes About Determination

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

Every time you are willing to say "Yes" to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don't let us to go away!

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don't presume the worst and I don't see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.

Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."