40 Movie Quotes about Determination (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: September 3, 2025

Memorable quotes about determination, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 There are three basic types: the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The wills accomplish everything, the won'ts oppose everything and the can'ts won't try anything.

Roddy McDowall as VINCENT LF-396 in The Black Hole (1979)

2 We can't. -Say. How come? Why not? Where does it say that?

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 We're going to have some fun if it's the last thing we do. -So let's get busy and find some fun.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 The will to do that, perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

Quote from Apocalypse Now

5 I've never been more serious about anything in my life.

Quote from Wreck-It Ralph

6 It isn't always being fast, or even accurate that counts. It's being willing.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

7 No way, mister. You're going to the top of this mountain, broken legs and all.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

8 I'm gonna grit my teeth and bear down. If a person grits his teeth and shows real determination, he can't fail.

Charlie Brown in Charlie Brown's All Stars!

9 Look at my pitcher's mound. It's got a tree on it. I can't pitch from there. -Come on, Charlie Brown, give it a try. Beethoven never gave up. -Beethoven never had a tree on his piano.

Quote from It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

10 What guts, what spunk, what chutzpah!

Quote from The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland