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Quotes About Determination

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
~ Maria Sharapova
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
~ Marion Cotillard
I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.
~ Mark Martin
There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.
~ Mary Hart
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done
~ Mercedes McCambridge
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.
~ Mia Love
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.
~ Mia Love
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
~ Michael Korda
It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!
~ Mike Dooley
I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
~ Milla Jovovich
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
~ Mother Teresa
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
~ Unknown
My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
~ Norman Tebbit
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.
~ Paul Prudhomme
That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
~ Pete du Pont
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
~ Philip Levine
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
~ Odilon Redon
I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.
~ Rafael Nadal
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson