Quotes About Determination

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.

I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty ropey upbringing and you might have thought I'd have gone the other way.

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

I had a poor upbringing. We lived in a rented house with no bathroom and an outside toilet and that, combined with the fact that I left home at 15 without any serious education, has always made me feel like I have to compete.

It's not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It's what you make of it after.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

Upgrade' was a hard one to make.

Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.