Quotes About Determination

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Fie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch....

So never give in," continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river.

While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

Mrs. Munt—such is human nature—determined that she would champion the lovers. She was not going to be bullied by a severe young man.

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

Nothing is impossible. The word actually says it itself: "I'm possible!" --Sherill Harvey (from Pinterest)

A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

Mostly you realize you can handle it. You'd rather turn it all upside down and dump it out and watch it scatter and disappear. You'd rather do that, because you don't want to have to handle it. You really don't. It's too stupid and crazy and incredibly, incredibly unfair. But you do handle it. Because the thing you learn is that you can.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

I'm on for any mortal thing!' My voice rang true, I swear, but it was the way of Raffles to take the evidence of as many senses as possible. I felt the cold steel of his eyes through mine and through my brain. But what he saw seemed to satisfy him no less than what he heard, for his hand found my hand, and pressed it with a fervour foreign to the man. 'I know you are, and I knew you would be. Only remember, Bunny, it's my turn next to pay the shot!

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.