Quotes About Determination

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

I was actually very surprised, and I told myself wow, I want to fight this guy.

I can do anything I want to do!

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want

You must do what you want.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

You have to want something or you're finished.

When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.