Quotes About Determination

It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive.

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

A great future stems from a great present, so I must take things one game at a time.

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'

Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Every time you step on the field you have to reestablish and re-prove yourself.

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Every time I step on the field, it doesn't matter who we're playing, I want to get an interception.

I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

I've been overlooked and slighted every step of the way. I think that brings out the best in me.