Quotes About Determination

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

McLaren started as the dream of one man, and it's since grown to encompass the hopes and dreams of more than 2000 men and women.

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

I take every race like my ride is on the line, like it's my last. I don't get sponsors when I finish second. My sponsors aren't happy when I finish second. They're happy when I win.

Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business's doors going 'I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand'.

I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in Beverly Hills, but I was born with a great deal of self-worth.