Quotes About Determination

The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'

I was a single mother when my child was little.

I was raised by a strong single mother.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

I've got a single mother.

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley's drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.

I was a single mother and had to earn money.

You can question my shooting. You can question my ceiling. Just don't question if I'm giving my all every single night. Don't talk to me about tanking.

I compete at the highest level every single night, regardless what the outcome is.

Every single night, I try to go out there and play the best that I can.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.

My mom was a single parent.

It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused and efficient with my little scraps of time that I do have.

I don't think anyone imagines themselves being a single parent. But I don't have a choice.

I once saw JLo's 'Behind the Music' special, and she said she may not get every role she auditions for but her goal is to make every single person a fan. That stuck with me, and I want to do that every time I see a client.

I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I never had a single thing handed to me. I had to fight for everything I wanted, like my education.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy shared more than just being leaders during critical times and the misfortune of lives cut short. They shared a power of will to drive the nation, sometimes single-handedly, toward a destination that few but they realized was attainable.

I come from a family where my father did things single-handedly and he built a music empire himself.

I single-handedly turned NXT into the 'A Show.'