Quotes About Determination

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

I can't promise you will succeed if you stick with your start-up. What I can promise is that if you give up, you won't possibly succeed.

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

Finishing what you started is important.

'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.