Quotes About Determination

You don't agonize over it, you simply decide whether action needs to be taken, and then you act on that decision. That's something we spend incredible amounts of time and money trying to teach to our students, and here you come along with it already hardwired into your Cybernet.

Fate whispers to the wolf; "you cannot withstand the storm" and the wolf whispers back, "I am the storm.

I'd rather have one concrete plan and refine it by running through it over and over than try to have multiple plans and run the risk of confusing parts of them when it comes down to the wire.

Real men don't read directions, don't ask for directions, and never let a lack of understanding stop them

Genius is the ability to see past the limitations that most of us are faced with, and accomplish the impossible.

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

Remember, inspiration unused is merely entertainment. To get new results, you need to take new actions.

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I left school on my 15th birthday.

When you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.

Quitting is fundamentally different from stopping. The latter happens all the time. Quitting happens once. Quitting means not starting again — and art is all about starting again.

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional

What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit. Each step in the artmaking process puts that issue to the test.

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

post?' At first, he said yes and Ashley started retreating. Then David decided he didn't need him there after all. Ashley came back towards the 18 yard line just as Zizou stepped up towards the ball. Did we, for whatever reason, let our concentration drop for a split second? If we did, it cost us. I'd say, though, that that equaliser was all about the

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

We have knowledge. We have to do something." His first punched the hair. "Who is with me!" Noone of the moved so much as a muscle.

After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long. And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.