Quotes About Determination

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or Rembrandt, and not feel some trepidation. There is always the possibility that you will crash and burn, and the whole thing will be a horrible, vulgar, self-indulgent mess.

We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb.

Being a Chaser you are not supposed to show any vulnerability.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

I feel Kavya is a reflection of me in more ways than one. She is strong-willed yet vulnerable. She is ambitious yet she believes in family values. She stands for what is right and knows when something is wrong.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.

You have to be able to compete, put yourself out there, make yourself vulnerable, to go for something that you want.

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

It's not so long ago I was paying £250 a season to play. I don't think in my lifetime it will ever get to wage parity with the men, but we have made so many great strides already.

My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn't easy even in the best of times. At age 42, she died, and it fell on me, then aged 22 and working minimum wage, to take care of all of us. At the time, I was newly married with a baby son. And I was deeply afraid for our future.