Quotes About Determination

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic thing, it's a how hard are you willing to work for it.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.