Quotes About Determination

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett

Chi si lamenta della fatica, se sa di lavorare per la conquista della propria libertà?

I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it.

I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave

But I, that was born to be my own destroyer...

I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner I should end my life; the Tears would run plentifully down my Face when I made these Reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate with myself, Why Providence should thus compleately ruine its Creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without Help abandon'd, so entirely depress'd, that it could be hardly rational to be thankful for such a Life.

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be." People

emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

Todo lo que usted debe saber es si seguirá adelante cuando las cosas resulten frustrantes. Yo creo que, dado un determinado nivel de inteligencia, el logro real no depende tanto del talento como de la capacidad de seguir adelante a pesar de los fracasos».

What's missing in tests of ability is motivation

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. And that doggedness depends on emotional traits—enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks—above all else. The

Es la combinación entre el talento razonable y la capacidad de perseverar ante el fracaso lo que conduce al éxito.

the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.

Treat reluctance like seasickness, Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. If you feel it, focus on the horizon.

Gwen was determined to screw it up, but had not yet seen how.

No battle plan survives first contact. And the only way out is through. All

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Pushing too hard will only make things freeze up. How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.