Quotes About Determination

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.

One airball is not going to stray away from me shooting a few more.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin.

Cub Swanson's a guy you either get through or you don't, and I fought him when he was on a nice winning streak.

I definitely have my dad's competitive streak in me.

In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.