Quotes About Determination

You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore….

Now is your trying time; now you are learning how to become master of every power that you possess; and if you are careless of your opportunities now you will be less a man some day than you might have been.

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil

Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

With the new day comes new strength.

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way