Quotes About Determination

What is your idea of mastery? Having the experience to know what you want to do, the vision to see how to do it, the courage to work with what you're given, and the skill to execute that first impulse—all so you can take bigger chances.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

There is nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tacks.

Don't come home a failure.

I've got to be first all the time — in everything.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

Finally, here is another useful question used by Peter Thiel: • "How successful do you want to be?" Or this variant favored by Tyler: • "How ambitious are you?

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

When I was twenty years old and putting on my first play in Birmingham, Alabama, I had to use my mother's credit card to rent a van to get there. The bill was around three hundred dollars. But the show didn't make any money, and when I came home I had to tell her I couldn't pay for the rental.

That [expletive] is lying to you!" he warned my mother. "He's a nickel slick and a dollar short." But my mother was insistent. She wore her father down until, finally, he gave his consent.

IN THIS ERA of instant gratification and gotta-have-it-now impatience, it's hard to imagine putting everything you have, and I mean everything—all your money, all your

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

payment and money that should have gone to my apartment, and rented the 14th Street Playhouse in downtown Atlanta. I hired actors, built scenery, and rented props. I did the whole nine yards on my own, spending all I had to my name.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

I agreed to do it, but the night the show was opening, March 12, 1998, was the coldest

A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything