Quotes About Determination

But for what it is worth, I don't think affirmations are sensitive to exactly how many times you write them, whether you use a keyboard or a pen, whether you throw away the paper you wrote on, how many weeks you do them for, or any other detail. I can't imagine the process of affirmations—if it works at all—is sensitive to the little details. I think a deep and consistent focus on what you want is all that is required. But that's just my gut feeling.

Overcoming obstacles is normally an unavoidable part of the process. But you also need to know when to quit. Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

A lack of fear of embarrassment is what allows one to be proactive. It's what makes a person take on challenges that others write off as too risky. It's what makes you take the first step before you know what the second step is. I'm not a fan of physical risks, but if you can't handle the risk of embarrassment, rejection, and failure, you need to learn how, and studies suggest that is indeed a learnable skill.1 As

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game.

an ill-equipped relatable character who faces impossible odds yet doesn't give up.

There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Locke sighed. 'So this is winning,' he said. 'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

Is cowardice a habit? And if it is, am I brave enough to break it?

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

The end of the world had taught Rachel Wheeler many lessons, but the most recent one was this: Running for your life was a bitch when you only had one leg. She tightened the moist, stained bandana that kept the worst of the leaking to a minimum, then hobbled forward another ten feet. The wild dog that had bitten her could have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and

Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

Just try to keep up.

Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times but still won't give up

Will banntot turn snow to rain, or roll back the sea, but it can keep you from being simply steamrollered by fate.

Will cannot turn snow into rain, or roll back the seas, but it can keep you from being simply steamrollered by fate.

Dr. Pafko said 'I did some things to solve the problem'?" This

Barking hard work, being a boy.

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.