Quotes About Determination

I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

There is certainly a future for Italian football, as we have pride, ability, determination, and after bad tumbles, we always find a way to get back on our feet.

I knew I was going to have to come with fire, passion and pride in every single race.

I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we're always competitive in it. That's something I've taken a lot of pride in my whole life.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It's ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

Big 12 Championship is, to me, it's always your primary goal to start with because it's not easy to do.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

Jack Wilshere is a prime example of how things work. He went to Bolton and did really well, then he went back to Arsenal and really kicked on. It is something quite a few of the young boys look at and think, 'If he can do it, so can we.'

In life, you're always going to have obstacles put in your path and I am a prime example of from when I was a little girl to where I am now, you control your own destiny.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It's not going to fall in your lap.

I am going to be prime minister.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'