Quotes About Determination

How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

First with the head, and then with the heart, that way small can beat big.

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.

He had given me the power of one, one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination. Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defence system and with it he gave me hope.

I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.

Peu importe le rêve, qu'il soit ambitieux ou grandiose, quelqu'un finira par le réaliser. Autant que ce soit vous.

I Shall Never Surrender.

It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.

I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.

She doesn't scare. Fear and her walk on different sides of the street.

All I've got is a pocketful of attitude.

You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

If someone eliminates the obstacles you believe to be in front of you, then you have no choice but to try. Fail spectacularly, if you will, but try.

Il ciriveddro è 'na gran camurria di machina che non sulo non s'arresta mai, ma t'obbliga a pinsari a quello che voli lui

Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding.

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.