42 Movie Quotes about Determination (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 10, 2025

Memorable quotes about determination, selected from famous or less known movies 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.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Rabbit; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 What guts, what spunk, what chutzpah!

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

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

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

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

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

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

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

8 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

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

Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown in Charlie Brown's All Stars!

10 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.

Dylan Beach as Charlie Brown; Schroeder From Peanuts in It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

42 Movie Quotes about Determination (+ Sound Clips)

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