Quotes About Determination

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

Some stories don't get told. Some stories you hold on to. To stand and watch and hold it in your arms was not cowardice. To look straight at the beast and feel its breath on your flanks and not to turn--one could carry the world that way. They sat together, the four of them, a little longer, before Harry rose slowly to his feet. It was Thursday. It was the end of the afternoon. It was time to pick up and carry on to the other side of the day.

was a team player only until he was handed the ball. And then he simply had to run with it. The sort of man who could not hand it off, as he ought to, the sort of man who would risk the game to score a point. The wrong sort.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.

One enemy at the time.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Sometimes I fall, but landing every jump isn't the point. It's the attempt. It's the effort.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

And know this: Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours. Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place. You are a woman who can build it yourself. You were born to build.

You put umph in triumph

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

You've got steel in you, Stahlia; that's why you recognize it in her.

Don't think I'm not trying. I'm trying, every day.

Only you can decide what breaks you .

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

What about those yogis who can lie down on a bed of nails, then arise, streaming blood, then stop the flow of blood from each wound individually with the power of their minds? Isn't frailty often a choice?

I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.

The will can achieve some things, but one must exhaust one's will in order to learn which things they are.

You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

we must all learn to do things we don't want to do. You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

The future felt like a herd of buffalo stampeding straight at me, and all I wanted was to get the fuck out of the way.