Quotes About Determination

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

Necessity is often the mother of balls