Quotes About Determination

In every generation that man is a rarity who exercises such a power over himself that he can will what is not pleasant to him, that he can hold fast that truth which does not please him, hold that it is the truth although it does not please him, hold that it is the truth precisely because it does not please him, and then nevertheless, in spite of the fact that it does not please him, can commit himself to it. pp 151-2

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that anyone became great by winning the big lottery prize.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

What was it that Nog was always quoting, one of Vic Fontaine's colloquialisms . . . in for the penny, in for the pound? Ro

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I'm fairly sure that was the wrong decision.

pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order?s new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing

There's always another way. But we can only see as we are. And no power on earth, nor above or below it, not even yours, Dr Freud, can deflect the human will when it has its sights set on one direction.

the only one of them not to fall on their ass

Oh sometimes it does, Carter

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.

I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.

DüÅŸünce fazlas?yla ac? vermeye baÅŸlad???nda eylem en güzel devad?r.

his way of walking toward closed doors without slowing down, knowing they would open for him;

Su vida había sido una sucesión de actos de voluntad, pero a veces flaqueaba y se hundía

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

I'm the caring type also. I care aggressively. That's just who I am.

After clearing away innumerable dog-hairs, swatting countless fleas and extracting from the carpet the remnants of a shattered glass eye, she protested to the University's comptroller of works that, if this sort of thing was going to keep happening, she deserved a small pay raise.

orphans know that their survival requires them to be prepared to do whatever is necessary. That there are no limits.

It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience