Quotes About Determination

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.