Quotes About Determination

Quote from the pope: "If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that." Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.

we can choose the life we want for ourselves. You choose that life by doing the best you can right in this moment. Right now. By being bold in this moment. Right now. There is no other moment to wait for.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Not everyone wants to be one.

Persistence creates luck.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish.

But one thing is for sure: if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

Rejection—and the fear of rejection—is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

Keep going until you hit the finish line!" It's "Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail." That's persistence. NOT

But the most important thing these rejections gave me was a sense that NEVER AGAIN should I rely on the whims of one person to choose my success or failure in any endeavor.

That's when it clicked. When everything changed. When I realized that nobody else was going to do it for me. If I was going to thrive, to survive, I had to choose myself. In every way. The stakes have risen too high not to.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses.

When I was at my worst, the first thing I had to do was convince myself that I could succeed again. Then, and only then, could I take the first step back—the tiniest step that would release me from my fears and anxieties and allow me to move forward, if not to mastery, then at least to success.

When you don't choose, you excuse.

When I was at my worst, the first thing I had to do was convince myself that I could succeed again.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

In other words, just do it. Leave behind everyone else's definitions or else you will drown in them. Why listen to him? He made 50,000 works of art in his life. On average two per day.

When an idea has electricity in it you will have no choice but to move into action. And you will love it because it will set your heart on fire.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.