“I've been on my arse before, but I have a lot of determination, and I'm not weak. Next day, it's sunrise, you're at the bus stop again, and you're back to work. I've never been one for pondering or questioning and thinking. Waste of time. Dust yourself down and get back up. Because that journey of c…”— Gordon Ramsay, esquire.com
“Growing up with an alcoholic father and watching your mother struggle to keep the family together gives you a big insight. I learned ruthless determination early on.”— Gordon Ramsay, esquire.com
“I can almost bend steel with my mind. I can bend anything if I try hard enough. I can make myself do almost anything.”— Martha Stewart, oprah.com
“For me, the season never stops. I’m always in training, and it’s how I keep myself in peak physical shape. When I’m not on the field training, I’m in the gym focusing on weights and cardio. I think a good balance of weights and cardio is a great way to keep yourself in shape year-round.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, mensjournal.com
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows.”— Francis Drake, en.wikiquote.org
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”— Bethany Hamilton, amazon.com
“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“"I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.”— Emmitt Smith, successories.com
“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”— Hank Aaron, baseball-almanac.com
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”— Bethany Hamilton, amazon.com
“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”— Ted Williams, beabetterhitter.com
“Nobody has to go hungry today. There is plenty of work for a man who wants to work. A kid can make plenty of dough for himself doing almost anything. I was hungry. I had to fight my way along. Freights and the like, fight, fight all the time. The life was tough, but it hardened you.”— Jack Dempsey, en.wikiquote.org
“never, adv.: I use this to mark my intentions; I cannot guarantee it or its opposite with absolute certainty.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”— Kobe Bryant, si.com
“Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org