Quotes About Determination

It takes greater courage to live.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you've achieved.

But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Eppur si muove.

E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .]

I hadn't planned on climbing mountains. But now that you're in the mountains, be ready to suffer.

At the end of all rationality there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.

Chris reflected that a horrific place like this, with all the odds so grotesquely stacked against him, was where the Doctor magnificently belonged.

Lifes a maze, you have to keep trying until you hit the right path

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

There is no dishonor in losing the race, Don said. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~p 227