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Quotes About Determination

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.
~ Rick Tumlinson
Someday, I'm going to learn to knit with my feet.
~ Jacques Plante
I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.
~ LeSean McCoy
Even if I have a successful and plentiful N.B.A. career, someday I am going to go back and try to be a big league pitcher.
~ Pat Connaughton
I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.
~ Joe Gilgun
Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
~ Ralph Steadman
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
~ Janet Jackson
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
~ Christopher Darden
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
~ Seamus Heaney
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
~ Jeff Tweedy
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
~ Don Kardong
If you could do 'Moving Too Fast' and 'Nobody Needs To Know' really, really well, you kind of knew you would make it someday, somehow!
~ Jeremy Jordan
Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.
~ Ronda Rousey
Those trying to drag me down through piracy, I want to tell them that I will somehow achieve what I want. I am focused enough to achieve what I want and give the audience what I can.
~ Vijay Deverakonda
Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
~ Jim McKay
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
~ James Salter
A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.
~ Athol Fugard
I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.
~ Suze Orman
I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.
~ Bill Cosby
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
~ Joan Baez
I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
~ Drake
If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
~ Lauren Miller
Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.
~ Brian McBride