Quotes About Determination

But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.

Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to be one, and that's what I did.

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That's true in the cancer ward, it's true in the Olympics, and it's true in the boardroom.

Harvey Araton

He who burns his bridges better be a darn good swimmer

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey MacKay

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

It depends. Are you going to be a high school basketball star?" "Probly," I said, scratching at a scab. "I'm pretty good already.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

Number is no strength, courage only is.

But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity.

I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

didn't want this. They didn't want to populate this horrible land that was snow and rocks and skinny wolves. They spoke to their children through gritted teeth. That's where the Québec accent came from. The nation crawled out from between their legs.

We can't live in whatever.

U zemlji u kojoj moja prava ne?e biti zašti?ena ne mogu ostati.

Wenn Euer Landesherr käme, und spräche, ich will mich, mit dem ganzen Troß derer, die mir das Szepter führen helfen, vernichten – vernichten, versteht ihr, welches allerdings der größteste Wunsch ist, den meine Seele hegt: so würde ihm doch den Zettel noch, der ihm mehr wert ist, als das Dasein, verweigen und sprechen: du kannst mich auf das Schafott bringen, ich aber kann dir weh tun und ich wills!

barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.

I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect...instead I choose Chaka Khan...and vodka... Bridget Jones

But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going.

Now you go out there, do your best, and don't get caught up in everyone else's nonsense. It'll turn out fine, I promise you.

Lo que tienes que hacer es ser tan valerosa como una heroína cinematográfica, sin sucumbir a la bebida o la auto-compasión, y al final todo irá bien.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.