Quotes About Determination

I told my father I wanted to go to the stock market. My father reacted by telling me not to ask him or any of his friends for money. He, however, told me that I could live in the house in Mumbai and that if I did not do well in the market I could always earn my livelihood as chartered accountant. This sense of security really drove me in life.

2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

In Donald Trump, you have a candidate who knows the difference between wanting something done and making it happen.

I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

The mentality of wanting to win has come into my game more.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

You hit one level of the sport, and then you want to get to the next level. Until, eventually, the Olympics becomes part of that dream, part of that goal set and the mindset of wanting to get there. And then you realize there's so much incredible hard work and determination and effort that you need to put in along the way.

I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.

I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people - I had to make it work in other ways.