43 Movie Quotes about Determination (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 19, 2026

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 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

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

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

3 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)

4 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

5 What guts, what spunk, what chutzpah!

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

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

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

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 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!

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.

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

10 Now, you've achieved more than anyone ever dreamed, but fighting these odds, it looks like rage, not courage.

Angus Macfadyen as Robert The Bruce in Braveheart (1995)