personal determination Quotes

I'm going to try to jump over people, and I'm going to try to run all day. If my body lets me, I'll do it.

Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of Jazz, but they didn't want me. In Krakow, I wanted to conduct, they didn't want me. And I start to think, 'I have to do something.' In Krakow there was drama and music. I started to study.

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

When I first started to sing, people automatically asked what Barbi Benton was doing behind a microphone, and I'm determined to show them there is talent here.

The stage, the show, the fans, that doesn’t matter because I’m always gonna fight my fight.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life.

People can say what they want but it doesn't stop me from doing what I'm crazy about doing.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.