Quotes About Determination

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.

Stephen Arnott

When it seemed that Lincoln might throw the champion, the entire Clary Grove clan jumped him and drove the tall clerk back against the bluff. But Lincoln, blazing with defiance, offered to take them all on—one at a time. Impressed with his pluck, Armstrong shook Lincoln's hand, turned to the spectators, and pronounced the fight a draw.

But Lincoln was as immovable as stone. "I am a slow walker," he said, "but I never walk back." He conceded that the final proclamation "has done about as much harm as good.

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

his abilities, of course. He was always intending

But to take no action is to fail for sure. I might as well get started. My first step is to choose my attitude.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little," he wrote. It was time to press.

5. Once there is "a flavor of certitude," says Bede, then "pray for the courage to take action." It's not uncommon for us to get to certitude and then realize that we don't really want to take the action. We're

Willpower is the caveman approach to life.

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008