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Quotes About Determination

I work hard and support myself.
~ Zoe Cassavetes
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
~ Aaron Paul
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
~ Adam Ant
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
~ Adam Langer
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
~ Aimee Mullins
We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
~ Unknown
It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
~ Albert Einstein
If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it
~ Alethea Kontis
I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.
~ Alex Rodriguez
You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.
~ Alexei Navalny
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.
~ Alexis De Veaux
There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
~ Ally Sheedy
I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.
~ Amanda Seyfried
I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.
~ Amy Irving
Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.
~ Andie MacDowell
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
~ Andre Malraux
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
~ Anita Roddick
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
~ Anne Frank
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.
~ Annie Dillard
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
~ Anthony Mackie
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
~ Arthur Ganson