Quotes About Determination

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

Of course there will be difficult times, and there will be more in the future, but I know what I have to do in the car.

We had a lot of difficult times at Granada.

I'm a go-getter. It's in my DNA. If I spend a lot of time lamenting on the difficulties, then it could be distracting.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

When I have difficulties, I will not complain.

I think, in football, you have to go through difficulties.

I always think about the difficulties I had to make sure I don't get too comfortable.

Difficulty does not deter me. In fact, I find challenges exciting.

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason - in boxing, in sport, in life.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.

I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.