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Quotes About Determination

When you get to my age, 59, the thought of getting the Latin dress and the Latin shoes on is a bit worrying. Your heart and your mind is always willing, but sometimes your body just says What are you doing?!'
~ Shirley Ballas
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
~ Jack Ma
You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.
~ Herb Brooks
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
~ George A. Sheehan
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
~ Lily Tomlin
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
~ Hugh Jackman
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
~ LeRoy Neiman
It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.
~ Colonel Sanders
And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.
~ Dave Edmunds
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
~ Serena Williams
You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.
~ Alberto Salazar
So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
~ Danny McBride
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
~ D. W. Griffith
I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
~ Bryan Batt
You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.
~ Caroline Buchanan
There was nothing worse you could be than a tweener. There was nothing worse you could be, and there were so many good guys that were so good that were tweeners, and they couldn't make it... And when you got that label, it was going to stick. It's like getting branded.
~ P. J. Tucker
There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
~ Ruth J. Simmons
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
~ Pep Guardiola
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~ Sylvia Plath
In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. So don't be afraid to ask - the worst you can hear is 'no.'
~ Christine Tsai