Quotes About Determination

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.