Quotes About Determination

I've come to believe that the word 'disabled' is a misnomer. 'Disabled' implies that you are broken beyond use. No longer functional. I'm quite abled.

What are you going to wear?" "My badass face." "Good choice," he said.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

I'm a hard-working young man who believes in myself.

As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.

One of my biggest attributes, if you speak to my coaches from when I was a young lad, is that I've always believed in my own ability and been a confident young man.

Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training - basic underwater demolition/SEAL - seemed like the ultimate test.

Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong!

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath' and when we wrote 'War Pigs.'

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

I find young people talk about what they want to do, which is great because you get to form the words, but its also like, you gotta just get in there.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.

Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.

If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

Many young people come to me and tell me that 'You inspire us with the way you perform, even if you are a girl with a short height.'

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.