Quotes About Determination

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

Women are tough; women are resilient and have an undying hope.

Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn't mess with them.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Fights are won by fighting, not by running.

I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else's name called; after that - I think it was a protective thing - I didn't hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn't mine.

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi. You've got to give her credit, no matter what you think of her.