Quotes About Determination

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.

We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

What keeps me going is my children.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.

I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look Back in Anger' with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, 'I want to do that.'

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

My faith always kept me focused and strong.

I said, maybe you need to take a risk with someone else. But they kept saying no, we want you to stay.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

We just kept hanging in and fighting.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

Kevin Muscat scared me. You know, people would say 'I'm going to break your legs' - when he would say it, you genuinely believed him.