Quotes About Determination

If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must. And with each challenge you will become stronger.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

I will either find a way, or make one.

But each new vexation brought the memory of the last, and the fact that it had been solved. Vexation was vexing, but idleness was like death.

But the idea was stronger than the impossibility of it. Even to recognise that longing and give voice to it was a kind of power.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

Life is always going to get in the way of our best intentions and most well-made plans.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

You are so bullheaded!" cried Aethra. "You must have gotten it from your father." "I don't think so," muttered Po.

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

PerTIsHUN to the STURveY!

She is quick and curious and playful and strong.

You'll see the "going big" theme running through everything I talk about in this section, as well as the rest of the book. You may be just

The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.

AMBITION IS NEVER content, even at the summit of greatness," Napoleon declared.

I am glad we've been bombed,' said the Queen famously. 'It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Katharine Hepburn

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

So just keep a-goin'-you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.