Quotes About Determination

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

We are self-determined by the meaning we give to our experiences; and there is probably something of a mistake always involved when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. There

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Don't you ever run away?' 'Never. Escape is for cripples. Neurotics.

Pelearé. -¿Contra quién? -No lo sé... pero pelearé. Caeré peleando, y no pienso caer»

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

God helps those who help themselves.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.

I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

Know what you want, and be sure of it, for regret gives birth to more regret and nothing more.

He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

But she did choose courage. Didn't she?" "In life we don't always get what we choose. I gave her what she needed.