Quotes About Determination

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.