Quotes About Determination

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I'm not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

Look closely and you will see Almost everyone carrying bags Of cement on their shoulders That's why it takes courage To get out of bed in the morning And climb into the day

I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.

Edward Jones

The dream shall never die.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.

Edward M. Hallowell

Because it's just not in the makeup of people with ADHD or VAST to give up. Sticking to something is a terrific quality if the something is productive and makes you happy or your life better. But sticking to something just for the sake of sticking to it is a Sisyphean undertaking—pushing that old boulder up the hill day after day only to have it roll back down the next.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

If you make the effort, and you want to win, you can be very successful. Because that's ninety percent of the game. Just those two things: effort and wanting to win.

Good night, and good luck.