Quotes About Determination

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.