Quotes About Determination

busting his agates

If it was true that the meek were going to inherit the earth, then Ma was going to be a Rockefeller.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

Resist much.

Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked; Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not, I will say what I have to say by itself, I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call, I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States, I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States

I will not be outfaced by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

Zbunjuje to i užasava, kako bi me brzo ubio izlazak sunca, Kada ne bih mogao, sada i uvek, da izazovem izlazak sunca iz sebe.

Like one who keeps afloat on a shipwreck by climbing to the top of a mast that is already crumbling. But from there he has a chance to give a signal leading to his rescue." —Walter Benjamin in a letter to Gerhard Scholem dated April 17, 1931

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude. —Lil J

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

Yeah, it's hard, baby It's hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it's hard baby It's hard right down to the very bone It's hard when you're a woman And you find yourself all alone I've been flapping and scrapping And running from door to door You know I've been flapping and scrapping, honey Running from door to door

My friends, in these desperate times we must use every weapon we have...You must understand that patience can be a weapon.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward.

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997

His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books.