Quotes About Determination

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Don't you want to know the kind of woman I am?" When he said nothing, she continued. "I'm like your father. When I start something I finish it." Cull seemed to consider that before he turned toward her, his lips quirking into a grin as his eyes blazed with challenge. "Is that right?" Before she could react, he grabbed her and dragged her to him. His mouth dropped to hers in a demanding kiss as he pushed her back against the barn wall.

A half mile down the hillside, he could see Warren's pickup stop in a cloud of dust. Hud watched Dana get out. She was still beautiful. Still prickly as a porcupine. Still strong and determined. Still wishing him dead.

Will was now all man. And all cowboy.

Just because you climbed onto a rank horse once, doesn't mean you quit riding.

She knows now that she can do almost anything she wants to—as long as she starts small.

If she wants to start a new habit, she gets excited and curious instead of overwhelmed.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

Your brain may say, "We can do it." But the knee may say, "Who are you to dictate to me? It is for me to say whether I can do it or not." So you have to listen to what the body says. Sometimes the body cooperates with you, and sometimes it thinks things over.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

No woman who wants something is a lady. If she is, she doesn't get it.

You gotta Stand for Something, Even If U Stand Alone

Don't be afraid, don't have no fear

Whether a bill has come up once only, or whether it has come up several times, is one important fact in judging whether the nation is determined to have that measure enacted; it is an indication, but it is only one of the indications. There are others equally decisive. The unanimous voice of the people may be so strong, and may be conveyed through so many organs, that it may be assumed to be lasting.

Hearing teams like Rangers are interested in you, you intend to give that little bit extra to show that obviously you can play and score goals.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

After a point, it doesn't matter where you come from. There are many star kids who haven't done well in the industry and rank newcomers who have done amazingly well.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

I always believe in myself, no matter what my ranking.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.