Quotes About Determination

Giving up cannot be an option.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.

I don't think 'nothing' is a good option.

Failure was not an option for me.

It was never an option to not succeed.

Now, if I speak to people who want to act, I say, 'Don't give yourself a back-up.' If I had gone to university, I wouldn't be doing this job now. Having that pressure and no other option just made me work that much harder for it, because you have no other choice.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

It was clear from very early on that I would work in the family company. There was not really ever another option or idea.

I'm addicted to success, failure is not an option.

You go into every game knowing that somebody wants to compete with you and take your place. There is no easy option and you always have to prove yourself.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

I had no doubts I wanted to be a footballer because that was the only option.

My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.

There are a lot of differences between me and Daphne but I think she values family, which I also value, and at a time when women had only one option, she was as determined to make that happen as I am in my career I guess, and I think that was sort of my way into Daphne.

If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.

I don't really take no for an answer. Giving up isn't an option.

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

But Id missed the boat in rugby, I was stuck in a rut and I needed a change. I was lucky to have darts as an option.

My parents sacrificed everything because they wanted a better life for me and my little sister. That's why we came to the U.S. So it wasn't an option not to step up to those high expectations. So I didn't go to high school. There was an early entrance program at California State in Los Angeles, and I started college at 13.