Quotes About Determination

Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.