Quotes About Determination

I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts sometimes, a bit of spark.

If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.' The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?' 'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.

Homer was so used to being told off in his life that you might as well have told a rock off for being sedimentary

I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.

There's life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it's actually a great way to leave, because it's giving Gavin the message that we haven't been defeated, we are up for it, we're young, we're in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together.

Being brave is a choice you make. You've got to say to yourself: I'm going to think brave. I refuse to think fear or panic.

no enemy too smart or too strong

It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To try and try and never get it right./Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,/I wouldn,t mind what hells I,d have to pass,/Not if the whole world called me fool and ass." Dauber (A poem). John Masefield. 1916. London William Heinemann

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

And it's hard for me to take a stand When I would take her anyway I can.

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.

I don't mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I've had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

While serving as a pallbearer for one of his Naval Academy classmates on a cold, rainy day at Arlington National Cemetery, my grandfather listened to a young officer suggest that he button up his raincoat to protect himself from the elements. The old man, raincoat flapping in the wind, looked at his solicitous subordinate and said, "You don't think I got where I am by taking care of my health, do you?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History. -John McCain

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

No matter what job you get,' he told my mother, 'you can make a good one out of it

It took a couple more weeks, and a commitment to being a real pain in the ass...

But, as Winston Churchill observed, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.

Look at almost any of the great players. Would they have succeeded anyway if they hadn't been pushed? That's the unanswerable question. Would Agassi have been a great champion if he hadn't been pushed by his father? Would Monica Seles, if her father hadn't quit his job and pushed her? It's difficult to say.

I firmly believe that one of the hallmarks of a champion—any champion—is the ability to absorb losses and regain confidence immediately.

Don't take nothing from nobody and don't give anyone reason to take advantage of you in the first place.