Quotes About Determination

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

You never want to be in a bases-loaded, no-outs position, but dammit, when you're there, you better enjoy it. You better not sit there and sulk about it. You better rise up and figure it out.

You can't sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on.

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

I know who I am. I just sit back and gather my paper.

There is no doubt that I feel bad when a film flops, but I can't sit back and not take up new work owing to that.

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.