Quotes About Determination

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

However, at 17 years old, I was ready to face any challenge and tackle any obstacles blocking the road to my dreams. I was ready to take on the world. I was unstoppable. Bygones were bygones. The future, however uncertain it might be, awaited me.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don't you?

like a good idea at all, once he thought of it. He did it anyway, winding

Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands. "For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl. 'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw. "What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?" -willow&bannor-

It is true that I might stumble for trying to do too much too soon, but it is also certain that I will never succeed if I hope for too little, or out of fear of failing start not at all.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Even if you are in a labyrinth at a dead end you have a choice; Change your course and seek an another exit or break down the wall. It's your choice.

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed." When

What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is the most absolute of all.

The game doesn't always go your way. Forget fair. Feel forgotten. But damn it, Anna, You don't stop playing.

Life can be messy. No doubt, a lot of these kids are living proof. But in spite of their anxieties and their angers, At least- They Are trying to live.

Hey, Life only gets you down if you let it.

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world!