Quotes About Determination

You come back and you do it right now," Morgead bellowed in her ears and in her mind. "Right now! Do you hear me?

That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

Now get out of my way, or finish life as a pile of cinders.

Arthur," she said, "there are some things quite beyond your powers." "Yes, I know," he said steadily. "But if no one ever tries to strive against them no one will ever succeed. We must simply do our best, you know. And hope.

I am as strong as I need to be. I am my only master.

She'd have him, even if it killed her. If it killed both of them, she'd have him.

Nic dziwnego, ?e jest rozgrywaj?cym, pomy?la?a. Ja bym po prostu rzuci?a si? na o?lep, z wrzaskiem.

It's not over till it's over.

She'd have him, even if it killed her. If it killed both of them, she'd have him

Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

If you have a will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure!

Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson as Secretary of War: "Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

When Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, was told that a certain city in his army's path was impregnable, he asked: "Is there not a pathway to it wide enough for an ass laden with gold?" It was the fate of Vidkun Quisling to be nothing but an ass.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.