Quotes About Determination

Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.

The next bit is tricky. By holding on with only one hand, and wedging the corresponding foot between the pipe and the wall, I swing out far enough to feel my outstretched fingers brush the window ledge. Not quite far enough. Life is like that.

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but the determination to be brave and move forward in spite of our nerves, genuine peace is not the absence of trauma but is finding our calm in the midst of turmoil, the presence of Jesus asleep in the storm.

Tools are first adopted because they meet a certain need or solve a particular problem, but over time the utensils we feel happy using are mainly determined by culture.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

hopeless optimism.

Wrrite, wrrite, Lapochka, why you don't wrrite?" and assure me that a horse, even with four legs, stumbles. I found it difficult to explain to her what I was writing. "It's about Colley Cibber," I said. "He was an actor, playwright and poet." "Also poet?" Varya asked suspiciously. "Who he? Pushkin?

In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.

I walk down the street, I fall down a hole. It takes me forever to figure out how to climb out. I walk down the street, fall down a hole, this time I know how to get out. I walk down the street, I walk around the hole. Next time I walk down a different street!

It was his way or the highway. And she was definitely not a way he had any intention of going.

If it's a choice between selling a million Pocket Planners and getting the chance to be with you, I'll figure out some other way to get this product off the ground.

So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

Even if life sometimes knocks you down, you're going to get right back up again.

After ten years of conflicting feelings, I'm suddenly not conflicted at all.

Well, people always say that if you follow your heart, you'll never regret it, which I agree with. But what I learned when Ian's father and I were trying to make things work between the two of us way back when, was just how much determination it can sometimes take to stay on your heart's path. I also learned that love is worth the struggle. Always.

A row of gas cans was waiting for them. "Start on that side and work your way back to me." She massaged one bicep with her free hand. "Lighting Logan's house on fire was hard work. I should probably go to the gym more often.

I resolved that if the heavens were going to pour liquid on my head, I would pour much more down my throat.

Indeed, the whole question of fear is beyond analysis, and there is only one rule, which is, that a man must try to be so much the master of himself that he shall be able to compel himself to do whatever is needful, fear or no fear.

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."

Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.

That which does not kill us," I said, "has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.