Quotes About Determination

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.

I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.

AAP will never support BJP, but it's determined to support Congress only if they will agree to give Delhi the full-state status.

That may be the ultimate definition of toughness inside the squared circle - having the will to overcome a serious injury to return to elite status as a main eventer.

Being bitter about the success or draft status of someone else is like swallowing Drano and hoping the other guy gets sick. You don't have time to fret and worry about the other guys vying for what you want.

I have no status or stardom. I was just willing to die for my dream.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

John Gresham Machen

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

My goal when I got drafted was to always stay in one place the whole time. No matter what the situation was.

You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.