Quotes About Determination

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!