Quotes About Determination

I'll give everything I have to be one of the best players in La Liga.

When my husband and I worked as line cooks in LA, we lived in a constant state of broke and tired.

I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it.

I don't care what you label me or how many times you come for me. I am fearless, and I'm just getting started.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.

That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'

People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don't see it like that.

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.

I've gone through a lot of 'nos' from record labels but I've built a great team along the way and that's the best thing you can have - people around you who believe in you and drive you forward.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

BIG THINKERS OFTEN DO BIG THINGS. SMALL THINKERS NEVER DO BIG THINGS.

I quote Tolkien because he puts it better. But I can still open a can of whup ass all over you." You're right," I told him. "He does put it better.