Quotes About Determination

It eluded us then, but that's no matter —tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning——

When you know why you will overcome any how

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the impossible, come true.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, But that is all.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

She was beautiful-- but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away.

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

What are you going to do? Can't say - run for president, write - Greenwich Village? Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years of Ohio love behind me and I'm going to bomb out this trench.

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.