Quotes About Determination

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my bedroom and pick up the guitar and play it. It became an obsession with me. That's all I wanted to do was play guitar and learn every lick I heard on the radio.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it - that's what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don't try my hardest to be like this.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

Living in Flint, poverty is an obstacle that you have to fight through. I always had to fend for my brother and sister - I was always the one to sacrifice my meals so that they could eat.

Every time I step into the ring there is a different obstacle but I'm very confident in myself and my ability.

I don't believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn't allow these things to break you.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.