Quotes About Determination

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

Adron! Don't you hurt him. (Kiara) I'm not going to hurt him, Mom. I'm going to kill him. (Young Adron)

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.