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Quotes About Determination

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.
~ Ezekiel Elliott
I am not going to play the victim.
~ Gloria Trevi
And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
~ Mary Stuart Masterson
I don't like to play the victim.
~ Barry Pepper
I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.
~ Sudha Chandran
It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I don't want to be a victim.
~ Carrie Fisher
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
~ Ginni Rometty
On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, 'Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I'm never going to get any work because they're never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.' I've always said, 'Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it'll come.'
~ Elodie Yung
I'm not a victim.
~ Stacey Dash
I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.
~ Noma Dumezweni
I am not the victim, and I won't be the victim in football or life.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.
~ Dion DiMucci
I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.
~ Nadya Suleman
Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.
~ Davina McCall
I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.
~ Drea De Matteo
I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking for sympathy. It happened, and I dealt with it. Afterwards, I tried to do what I could for other people who had strokes, speaking at hospitals that treated stroke victims.
~ Rod Laver
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
~ Grace Paley
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
~ Kim Cattrall
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
~ Art Alexakis
Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.
~ Lee Corso