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Quotes About Determination

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.
~ Bella Thorne
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Focused, hard work is the real key to success.
~ John Carmack
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.
~ John Mason Brown
I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.
~ Croft M. Pentz
I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.
~ Tatyana Ali
That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.
~ Aaliyah
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
~ Taylor Caldwell
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~ Perry Como
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.
~ Lawrence Reed
My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"
~ Milton Berle
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I can't die now, I have so much work to do.
~ John Gresham Machen
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
~ Sara Paretsky
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
~ Sarah Ferguson
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
~ Shelley Winters
There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.
~ Sherry Argov
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
~ Sophocles
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.
~ Taylor Swift