Quotes About Determination

Once Ryan asked Kurt, "What are you going to do when you're thirty?" "I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty," Kurt replied in the same tone he would use to discuss a broken spark plug, "because I'm never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty—I don't want that.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

Hamish was like a trumpet in his head. "You will no' die. Do you hear me? You willna' die!" "You're already dead, Corporal. You can't stop me." Rutledge was finding it hard to concentrate. "You willna' die! I willna' let you die!

Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.

opportunism" into "fervent zeal.

If I could tell him just one thing, wherever he is, pass him one message, it would be this: he had something. Something to his thoughts, his ideas, the papers in his notebooks, the work we did in the garage. Beyond just a purity to his ideas, a sincerity to his belief, a genuine curiosity, a determination that, if he just sat there long enough, thought hard enough, failed enough times, he'd find a way in.

If I have anything at all I am still the Hero. I am here. This was my story. This is my problem. I'm going back down there to fix it.

It's the way things are. You do the cop show. You get your little check. You wonder: Can you change it? Can you be the one who actually breaks through?

make a simple plan, inform everyone involved with it, don't change it, and kick it in the ass.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.