Quotes About Determination

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to take care of three brats. We were highly in debt and our financial condition was really bad. My mother used to work in a factory, and she used to complete the pending work at home.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

Some people, they don't get a few takedowns, they start getting nervous, and they fade. That's just not in my character.

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

Every day I fail at something.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

There's a lot of times that you got to put yourself out there to fail, you can't be afraid to fail.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

We knew we could fail; we just didn't think we would.

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

I don't love to fail.