Quotes About Determination

It's up to me to create the life I want.

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.

Whoever is holding the belt right now is the one I want to fight. I want to get that belt again. It's mine.

I would love to fight whoever is the best. I want to test myself on how much I can achieve.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?