Quotes About Determination

I know it's a cliche to say, 'There isn't anything you can't do if you believe,' but that's something I subscribe to, even if it's corny.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I am a woman of substance and there's a lot inside me. I have had my own struggles and my journey.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - there's no substitute for hard work.

I initially found it difficult with my role as a substitute, sometimes sitting in the stands at Spurs, but I learned to deal with it.

I always want to score as quickly as possible, whether I am in the starting lineup or playing as a substitute.

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

If you want to succeed, you have to take the necessary risks and the occasional leap in the dark.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.