Quotes About Determination

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

Our generation are always go-getting, hustling.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Brave means that we will try to create something for ourselves. Brave means never going backwards when we can go forwards. That is the bravery that we need.

We expect nothing but greatness from ourselves.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

I'm out here to beat everybody - that's what I'm tying to do.

No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.

There were so many stories and so many instances where I had guys telling me that this game was for two-handed players and not for one-handed players, and I'll go out here and get myself hurt.

I hate missing practice and games, not being out here.

My mind could keep going all day long. You give me a new body, and I could go for another 20 years out here, and do it well.

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.