Quotes About Determination

Just to show I had everything working against me: I'm small, my memory isn't all there, but I was a hard worker and I wanted people to realize, you may have weight problems working against you, height problems, whatever, but you can still conquer it and go for your dreams.

I have always believed in going after your dreams.

As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

If you're disabled, and you're trying to achieve your dreams, accept the fact right now that you have to work 500 times more than the average bear next to you. Stop bucking for sympathy, put on your titanium legs, and run.

You gotta go after your dreams and do it. Go and do it.

Obviously this is something huge, just to be playing on the world stage and repping all the parents out there - not just the parents, but obviously all of the African American girls who feel as if they don't have much to rely to make your dreams come true, whatever the circumstances may be.

From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'

Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn't determine whether you can pursue your dreams.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

At the end of the day, you're going to go through obstacles, but with passion, you will be successful, and you will accomplish whatever your dreams are.

I feel like there is just never a good time for taking a chance and following your dreams - whatever those dreams are.

At the end of the day, stick up for yourself whether you have spiky hair, long hair, blonde hair, black hair, whatever it is, stick up for yourself and go for your dreams because at the end of the day, you can pretty much accomplish anything if you put your mind to it.

You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That's what I did.

Dont let people steal your dreams.

Dreams come true, but dreams don't wait for you. You have to chase your dreams.

I believe that Iowa is - and ought to be - a place where, if you're willing to work for it, you can make your dreams come true.

I always believe that people need to strive and push forward and keep going for your dreams and never give up. It doesn't matter what age you are.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

The truth is, successful people are not ten times smarter than you. They don't really work ten times harder than you. So why are they successful? Because their dreams are so much bigger than yours!

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

That's part of the character of Shanghainese people. They're good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality: Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. Just like New Yorkers - they're often like that.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.