Quotes About Determination

I left my native place to come to Mumbai, got routinely cheated, was given bad words, had phones and doors slammed on me. All my work and time was going down the drain. I didn't get credit for some work I did.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I never wanted to be a slap hitter. It would hurt my pride if someone called me one. I wanted to be a guy who could do everything.

I started my career with a loss, getting 'slapped' by life.

I went to law school for one reason and one reason only. To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I'll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.

Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.

I am a completely self-made person. It's been a tough journey - I learnt on the job, worked 48 hours without sleeping.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

People don't actually see what's gone on behind the scenes - the hard work, when you're doing your rehab, when you're sleeping on an ice machine - and yet they have an opinion on it.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

I think the whole boxing world was sleeping on me. They were sleeping on me hard.

I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house. There's a lot of that going on so that guys can... and the whole time, you're sleeping on air mattresses and you're using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.

The show 'Mahabharat' has given me sleepless night; I just couldn't stop thinking about it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, and I don't want to leave it at any cost.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, if I want to do something, I go ahead and do it. I think I learnt that from my dad.

I judge people, and myself, when you are up against it. When you've been beaten like that you have to find out who is alongside you, you roll your sleeves and come out fighting and those are my principles.

I realize that dinner time, bath time, and bed time is 'roll your sleeves up, we can do this.' Just get one foot in front of the other, it's gonna be okay.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.