Quotes About Determination

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

It's not just about talent. It's about having players with good mentality.

Genuine talent does shine through but, in my experience, ambition will get you much further than pure talent.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

If you don't have faith on your talent, no one else would.

I went from selling everything to saying, 'I ain't gonna sell that. Can't do it.' It wasn't working for me, so I was just like, 'Yo, I'm going to sell my talent.'

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.

My mother drilled into me the importance of hard work. She had good talent at school but did not have the money to attend. She left at nine years old and started working.

From 'America's Got Talent' I've learned to not look at all the bad comments and just concentrate on the positive.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

You don't have to be the biggest, the strongest, or the most talented player to be successful, but you do need to be a step ahead of the competition.

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.