Quotes About Determination

Creative geniuses are: 1.  Comfortable with uncertainty 2.  Able to hold seeming opposites or paradoxes 3.  Persistent

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right .

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Cuando creía que se le acababa la cuerda, él se recuperaba. Le cogí la cara entre mis manos y lo obligue a mirarme a los ojos «Me harás saber cuando llegue tu hora, ¿no?», dije, más a modo de declaración que de pregunta. No quería tomar la decisión por mí mismo. «Me lo harás saber, ¿no es cierto?»

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

The marriage of Esau to the daughter of Ishmael reminds us that the promised offspring of Abraham was determined, not by the will of human beings, but by the will of God. The families of the two "older" sons (Ishmael and Esau) were united in the marriage, but neither received the blessing promised to Abraham.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

New York had taught me about hard stone, narrowness, and gray shadow.

not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice.

Go to hell. Come back burning.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drink without he will.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

I'll hike it!" Katrina said, weighing in on the conversation. "I'll hike the entire trail by myself on crutches if I have to. I want to see the apple tree!" Determined. Or stubborn. Or both. I had been carrying Katrina around Europe for the last eight weeks only to find now that sufficiently motivated, she could hike three hours down a mountain.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

Sometimes confusion is a necessary way to slow things down until we have within us the strength and courage to find the best and truest answer instead of settling for an easier, quicker one along the way.