Quotes About Determination

I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until things are perfect, wringing your hands, dithering and hesitating and slowly twisting your panties into a perfect little fisherman's knot. Or you can get up off your lazy fucking ass and do something. What's the worst that can happen?

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Confidence. Ali won many of his fights before he even stepped into the ring,

Dedication. The battle we're in requires "the act of devoting all of one's energy, effort, and abilities to a certain task," as the Muhammad Ali Center boasts on its walls. Folks

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Your path to this point, the trials you have suffered... taking each of those things that knocked you down and made you grind your teeth and then standing up again is what makes a true hero.

In one such rented attic room was a young man who made his living selling fish. Every morning he would get up before the crack of dawn and carry his tin box to the riverbank, where he bought his goods. He worked furiously for an entire month, and then at the end of the month he put on his finest clothes and went out to buy a prostitute—as if that made it all worthwhile.

I became impatient with my own aimlessness.

My innocent request for kend? lessons had brought me a load of unexpected tasks. But I had asked for it, so there was nothing I could do.

I think this was the first time I ever experienced the savagery that lies in the human heart. I could never find pleasure studying under this teacher. But I acquired a determination to work so hard that this teacher would never be able to criticize me again.

But there's people I care about! And this time around, I'm not gonna just stand by and let them all get hurt!

Tackle life with as much energy as Goku! I'll try to do the same!

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

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