Quotes About Determination

I took it as my personal responsibility to be able to juggle. I didn't want anybody to help me and I didn't expect my office to make it easy for me.

At its heart, 'Meru' is a personal story.

When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, 'Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover.' But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

Ronaldo is a top player, not only for his goals but also for his personality, as he hates to lose.

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

When I lose, I take it very personally.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

The boost in confidence that kept me going in those early days when I was at Newcastle came from Peter Beardsley.

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.