Quotes About Determination

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I always come back around. I make it work.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.

I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes me that much wiser. so thanks for making me a fighter!

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.