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Quotes About Determination

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
~ Leo Durocher
My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!
~ Joe Biden
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
~ Anchee Min, Red Azalea
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
~ Walker Percy
I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died
~ Shahrukh Khan
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
~ Raf Simons
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
~ Mother Jones
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.
~ Alberto Tomba
My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.
~ Tonya Harding
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
~ Frank Gehry
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
~ Michael Clarke Duncan
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
~ Lance Armstrong
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
~ Richard Branson
I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.
~ Matt Millen
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
~ Quincy Jones
I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.
~ Jane Chen
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
~ Derek Luke
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
~ Quintilian