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Quotes About Determination

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
~ John Wooden
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
~ John Wooden
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~ John Wooden
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ John Wooden
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
~ John Wooden
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
~ John Wooden
He who seeks and struggles shall find. Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach. When a man makes up his mind to do a thing it becomes easy for him to do it. If you have a clear thought, be decided, and hesitate not—if you decide, hesitate not, but carry it out speedily. You
~ John Wortabet
You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.
~ John Wortabet
Not by fitful efforts, but by constancy, is an end secured. The
~ John Wortabet
What made him irresistibly charming – his impulsiveness, his impatience with the dull, his insistence on energy,28 his sense of the comic, the depth of his emotional responses, his intense determination to do things his way, his willingness to try anything – these would have been the very things with which Wieck had the greatest trouble.
~ John Worthen
The Old People brought down Tribulation, and were broken into fragments by it. Your father and his kind are a part of those fragments. They have become history without being aware of it. They are determined still that there is a final form to defend: soon they will attain the stability they strive for, in the only form it is granted—a place among the fossils.
~ John Wyndham
They persisted in the face of discouragement until they gained the kind of acceptance accorded to the inevitable.
~ John Wyndham
Sounds Machiavellian to me. I like to see what I'm aiming at, and go straight for it.' 'Most people don't, even though they'd protest that they do. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake:
~ John Wyndham
In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. Now, running to a thing, that's a different matter, but what would you want to run to?
~ John Wyndham
Self-pity and a sense of high tragedy are going to build nothing at all. So we had better throw them out at once, for it is builders that we must become.
~ John Wyndham
In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because
~ John Wyndham
Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
~ John Wyndham
In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it you don't know what you find either. Now running to a thing, that's a different matter, but what would you want to run to?
~ John Wyndham
There is no state of being called "trying".
~ John Yokoyama
bet you homework
~ John Zakour
The only tools you need to accomplish your goals are your heart and your brain.
~ John Zakour
George shrugged. "You just stood up to your mother, Tyler. I should think now you could take on the world.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
You tried. That was all you could do. All any of us can do....
~ Elizabeth Vaughan