Quotes About Determination

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

Me di cuenta de que podía soportarlo todo: el frío que calaba mis ropas gastadas, la tristeza de mi absoluta miseria, el sordo horror de aquella casa sucia. Todo menos su autoridad sobre mí. Era aquello lo que me había ahogado al llegar a Barcelona, lo que me había hecho caer en la abulia, lo que mataba mis iniciativas;

marked Never write with pencil, m'ija. It is for those who would erase. Make your mark proud and open, Brave, beauty folded into its imperfection, Like a piece of turquoise marked. Never write with pencil, m'ija. Write with ink or mud, or berries grown in gardens never owned, or, sometimes, if necessary, blood.

Every 'no' means you're one step closer to 'yes.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. —FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

In his own mind he had already achieved success in America. Now he had to go through the motions.

Nadas facil en la vida

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

I offered my life for a decadent democracy," pronounced the Reverend L. Francis Griffin, a black man who had served in the Jim Crow military during World War II and

But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

I don't mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I've done as well as I possibly could.

I believe ability can get you to the top," says coach John Wooden, "but it takes character to keep you there.… It's so easy to … begin thinking you can just 'turn it on' automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, 'More than ability, they have character.'

There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Touched by an angel, my ass!" roared the woman, whom I recognized despite the ash covering her face: Moondance. "I'll touch you, asshole!" She fired again.

Carol Higgins Clark

And I believe him. For the first moment since the Prophet has made his announcement, I feel like maybe, maybe, I have a chance. (44)

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.