Quotes About Determination

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.

Want is the mother of industry.

You can shake your head but don't break your neck.

A lot of small potatoes makes a big load.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

The fact that life is a grind is what sharpens many a man's wits.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.

To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food and fresh water, I knew it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn't bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

Ja sam vidio u ?emu je takozvana borbenost nekih "borbenih" ljudi. Oni izmisle svoju "borbu", na silu joj na?u razloge, nadjenu ime, i bore se, bez rizika i rezultata, bore se – samo da ne bi morali misliti i raditi.

Kod unutarnjih borba koje ?ovek vodi sa samim sobom i sa nepoznatim silama u sebi, važi više nego igde pravilo: ne predaj se nikad! - Ni predaje, ni ustupanja! A pre svega, što kažu u Bosni: ne veži tugu za srce!

Samo plivati! Isplivati iz hladne vode i okrenuti le?a svemu, i maštanjima o onom što je bilo, i ?ega nema, i što bi trebalo biti, i ovoj obali i ovom životu. Plivati i isplivati.

Nije dovoljno jednoj stvari le?a okrenuti pa da prestane da nas goni i mu?i.

Svi su oni u suštini jedno i podjednako vredni naše pažnje, jer pokazuju mesto na kome je ?ovek naišao na zapreku i nije zastao pred njom, nego je savladao i premostio kako je mogao, prema svom shvatanju, ukusu i prilikama kojima je bio okružen.

Everything is breaking stones, up to a point.

When your life is going downhill, it doesn't get better just because you want it to. Nor can you will it to be better. Your life will only get better when you get better.

Although frustrated and angry, I was determined not to give up on forgiveness or myself.

And you kept fighting even after you were knocked down. Goddamn it, you dragged your ass off the ground and you kept fighting. — John Matthew, LOVER MINE

She'd hated spending the daylight hours away from him, hated the distance between them, and she wasn't letting it go on anymore on her side.