Quotes About Determination

Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

They know it doesn't matter if they are fast, only if they are faster.

Therefore, my son, if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

Dove c'è una grande volontà non possono esserci grandi difficoltà.

Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

In a letter to Francesco Vettori of 18 March 1513, Niccolò gives us a vivid summary of his youth: 'I was born in poverty, and at an early age learned how to script rather than to thrive.' 1

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.

The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

Don't let fear govern your decision.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Whatever you decide to do, remember that you have to be able to go forward in life without looking back.

And here it will end, one way or the other, she whispered again

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.