Quotes About Determination

What do you do when you've finally resigned yourself to your own inevitable extermination, and someone offers you a way out? Any hope in a place like this almost has to be false; all it can do is shake your determination, tempt you with thoughts of after this is over when you should just be thinking about getting the job done now. Hope is distraction, hope is fear undercutting resolve, because hope gives you back that most terrible of battlefield commodities: something to lose.

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. —ROBERT JARVIK

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

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Tereddüdün ve tercih zaruretinin esaretinden kurtulmu? bir hürriyet var m?d?r?

?çimde ani bir karar do?du. Kendini tatbik ettirmek için muhtaç oldu?u büyük enerjiyi de beraber ta??yan bu karar? vakit kaybetmeden fiile geçirmek istedim. Zira onun en kuvvetli dü?man? zamand?.

Marksizmin ilmini sevmez, fakat ruhunu severdi. Asla gerçekle?miyece?ini bildi?i büyük emellerinden biri de bu ruhu o ilmihalden kurtarmakt?: Bir sat?r?n? yazmad??? ne eserler tasarlam??t?. T?ptan felsefeye atlay???n?n sebeplerinden biri bu arzu idi, felsefede kalamay???n?n sebeplerinden biri de bu iradesizlik.

Doubt fucks everything. Take a foundation, no matter how strong, sprinkle generously with doubt, and watch it crumble. Me? I'm unfuckwithable. Not this knee, not bad weather, and certainly not the many men that wish bad intentions on me can stop me. I rise up, not like a phoenix, but like the zombie corpse of Dick Murdoch. This brainbuster is for you.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

He who hesitates is lost, my friend.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

As a man of sense never at?tempts impossibilities, on one hand, or the other, he is never discouraged by difficulties: on the contrary, he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest."23

You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal….This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.