Quotes About Determination

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.

As a kid, my goal was survival.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

If I had chosen to act only as a heroine then I would have disappeared from the scene long ago. So, I decided to take up comedienne roles, so I survived in the industry for nearly five decades.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.

I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.