Quotes About Determination

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

I think anyone can do a book if they want to, it's just timing- wise.

Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.

I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn't going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.

A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can with the opportunity.

There's only so much you can control when you're fighting, so the things you can control - like your fight song - are pretty important. So you want to pick that wisely.

I could've given up on music and stuck with my day job. But I chose to work hard and articulate my sound. I look back on that time and I think to myself: I used it wisely.

I've beaten some of the wisest, most opportunistic and powerful women, and I will prove to Asuka that she is not unstoppable.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.