Quotes About Determination

Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important" p. 33

Camron Wright

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

Neta crawled out of the wreckage, hoping against hope that Amelia wasn't hurt. She wasn't. She was standing next to the plane, grinning and powdering her nose. "We have to look nice [if] reporters arrive," she said.

I have not grown younger or more biddable. But I realize now that when there is love, any obstacle can be faced.

Candice Millard

Always more audacity.

Roosevelt had never allowed himself to fear death, famously writing, "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die." From a very young age, he had been prepared to die in order to live the life he wanted. When a doctor at Harvard told him that his heart was weak and would not hold out for more than a few years unless he lived quietly, he had replied that he preferred an early death to a sedentary life.

Although Churchill was quick to believe every good thing ever said about his potential, he wasn't willing to leave anything to chance.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

At twenty-five, Marion had already developed the philosophy to "take failure with my chin up and success, when it comes, in stride.

Happy are those who dream dreams And are willing to pay the price to see them come true

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.

I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

The Bulletproof Mind

On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.