Quotes About Determination

If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

It would have been a longer and slower job, Im sure, and probably there would have been a high price to pay. But what is the price of freedom? Whats the price of life? Donald countered bitterly.

The silence of this age is an exclamatory silence. God has stopped talking because all that needs to be said has been summed up in the person of Christ. Those who preach do not come with a new word. Instead, they declare and apply that which has already been said. Like the apostle Paul, the preacher's message is shaped by a determination to "know nothing … except Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2).

For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

There is no fate. Whatever I do from this point on is down to me. I choose my own path. Write my own story.

He looked back at Troy – a bold, challenging eye-to-eye stare that Troy had often wished he possessed himself. If he could look like that he'd be the hard man of the Yard in no time.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

There's something in your heart And it's in your eyes It's the fire, inside you Let it burn You don't say, "Good luck" You say, "Don't give up" It's the fire, inside you Let it burn

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

up all morning; it would not be unheard

if you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and suffer nothing at all. . . . Big things are won by big dangers.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

I would rather die on my feet than spend a lifetime on my knees

You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.

He advised, "Whenever you fall, pick up something.

In this way, you force time to your will. Time, for sighted people, is that against which they fight.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up.

Destiny is for the weak; strong men build their own lives.

Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've paid it, that's what I reckon.