Quotes About Determination

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Peter Meredith

Action conquers fear.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

You see a boxer with a beautiful nose and you got a fighter without heart.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.

intransigence

I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely.

If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you," Jordan said.

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.

IF YOU ARE GIVEN A CHOICE, YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACTED FREELY.

rigor vitae

you may be doing everything for the wrong reasons and you may be pissing yourself when you do it, but at least you haven't given up.

I don't know what parts of me the Ceph have blown away and I don't know how much else has been broken down to keep the rest of me going, but I know that at least my balls are still intact. I know this because I can feel them crawling back up into my abdomen.

The water's too deep to stand in now— ...feebly treading water although her limbs must be frozen almost to paralysis. It's a pointless effort, a brainstem effort; last duties discharged, last options exhausted, still the body grabs for those last few seconds, brief suffering still somehow better than endless nonexistence.