Quotes About Determination

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody