Quotes About Determination

first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. —VICTOR FRANKL

That is the first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level.

said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be

She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.

I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

always a choice, even in not choosing.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.

Nothing inspires motivation more than success.

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

Elizabeth Rudnick

You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

You can tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed.

And if such a gift could come to him at such a time, then anything—dear girl from Rockford dressed up for her meeting, rushing above the Rock River—he opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.

My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: "Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and...did it." Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless. Perhaps she meant that, but I don't know what my mother meant.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

She came to understand that people had to decide, really, how they were going to live.

Is he going to be okay?" I said he would most certainly be okay. I emphasized this, because I did not know myself—except what choice did he have, what choice do most of us have, except to be okay?