Quotes About Determination

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

You can have anything you want. You just have to decide what you want and do everything it takes to get it!

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.

I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.