Quotes About Determination

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

If you want it badly enough, it's yours.

How far are you willing to go to create the life you want?

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

Like flowers blooming through cement, we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

The goal of your first marathon is to finish. You have no time goal. You're not endeavoring to win or place in your age category. Being a speed demon serves no purpose other than to court injury. Your only competition is you.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you're out.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

If you don't ask, you don't get. But if you ask and don't get, ask again.

The greatest writers have persistence.

I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels.

One key to success is having a clear goal, a plan to achieve it, and then persistence, persistence, and persistence to get there.

Maryanne paid for her purchases, and once everything was stuffed into the blue plastic bags, she headed toward the exit. That's when she spotted her tail again... not six feet away. "Here," she said, thrusting her purchases at J.Z.'s middle. "Since you're sticking to me like used bubble gum to my shoes, you can make yourself useful. Carry these to my car, please." She left him, arms full of bags, jaw agape, and wend to buy a soft pretzel and an icy drink.

E' incredibile come certa gente si arrenda subito. Non sono perdenti, sono quelli che non ci provano nemmeno.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Amar aos homens como castigo Como os homens são, quase todos, desprezíveis e repugnantes - tudo menos dignos de amor -, amá-los por determinação (e só por temor a Deus os podemos amar) constitui uma pena, um suplício, uma penitência.

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Success depends on where intention is.

There were various things which were absolutely essential to survival: it was essential to fill oneself completely with a determination to survive; it was essential to create in oneself a capacity for dissociating oneself to some extent from Treblinka; it was important not to adapt completely to it. Complete adaptation, you see, meant acceptance. And the moment one accepted, one was morally and physically lost.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.