Quotes About Determination

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States.

Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her. It is for them she is leaving, she tells herself, but still she feels guilty.

It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.

We can not be swallowed up like those little pebbles. We aren't pebbles. We won't just quietly sink to the bottom. We can run, we can fight, and we can work. We are not helpless unless we let ourselves be.

I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.

Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

It's time for some bigger steps. You need to push yourself, Audrey. You won't know till you try. I believe you can cope with it.

I run. I always fucking run. Well, I'm not running anymore. I want stability. I want love.

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.

When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed.

Sophie Kinsella

The thing with giving up is you never know whether you could have done the job.

is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. Maybe not the easy thing—but the right thing.

Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!

I also know that standing up for yourself can be hard. But you have to do it. Sam Roxton

But at the same time, my resolve is hardening like lacquer. I'm taking time out, but I'm not giving up. I mean, I'm only in my twenties; am I going to let one setback crush my ambition? No.

Will I be OK? Krista gives a derisive laugh and swivels to face me. I've built up a business and I've turned off my mum's life-support machine and I've punched a shark in the face. I think I can cope with this .