Quotes About Determination

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I don't stumble at any hurdle.

If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you're trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don't cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

Any opponent can be a stumbling block.

Banging my feet against the snow to get a grip on the ice, I damaged my artificial leg stump. On several occasions my artificial leg turned 180 degrees and I had to put it back to its normal position which slowed me down. I had to crawl along the slope to move forward, annoying the climbers behind me.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

If the shot is going to be epic, if it's going to be awesome, and to make it epic and awesome you have to hit the ground and possibly hurt yourself, I choose to hit the ground and possibly hurt myself. Because in my silly stunt man mind, an epic shot that lives forever on film, I'll get over it in a couple of months!

I worked every day. I never turned down a stunt.

All stunt men and women are as competitive as I am. They're just not as talented.

There was a cute girl on the crew that I was trying to impress during a very elaborate stunt. I winked at her and, when I started running, proceeded to lose my balance, fall, banged my knee, and ended up sprawled out 12 feet in the air.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

I do all my own stunts!

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

I learned that I can earn many things if I don't use stunts and do everything myself.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.