Quotes about Determination

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

It's always too early to quit.

I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.