Quotes About Determination

If you want to achieve something, you're going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.

When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.