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Quotes About Determination

I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.
~ Samantha Schutz
Where you are and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without any problems Recognize that you are going to get out of this that you always get out of this that you are going to live that you won't go crazy I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.
~ Samantha Schutz
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
~ Sammy Davis Jr.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
~ Sammy Davis Jr.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -Bruce Lee
~ Sammy Franco
Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." -Charles Dickens
~ Sammy Franco
Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed
~ Sampson Davis
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
I can't go on, I'll go on.
~ Samuel Beckett
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)
~ Samuel Beckett
Fail, fail again, fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
~ Samuel Butler
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
~ Samuel Butler
If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.
~ Samuel Butler
We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.
~ Samuel Butler
I don't care," he answered, "whether I make the most of my strength or not; I don't know whether I have any strength, but if I have I dare say it will find some way of exerting itself. I will live as I like living, not as other people would like me to live; thanks to my aunt and you I can afford the luxury of a quiet unobtrusive life of self-indulgence," said
~ Samuel Butler
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~ Samuel E. Morison
In two words: im-possible.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
~ Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson
Clear your mind of can't.
~ Samuel Johnson
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
~ Samuel Johnson