Quotes About Determination

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

It's nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

Success means doing things you don't want to do.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.