Quotes About Determination

Work alone is noble.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

You can do amazing things when you believe.

I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Grandpa's farm had belonged to our people ever since there had been a farm in that place, or people to own a farm. Grandpa's father had left it to Grandpa and his other sons and daughters. But Grandpa had borrowed money and bought their shares. He had to have it whole hog or none, root hog or die, or he wouldn't have it at all.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

Ease of going was translated without pause into a principled unwillingness to stop.

What's really bad is that after acknowledging a wrong decision, I don't have the nerve to turn back, since I'd rather correct myself with another wrong decision.

Perseverance is where the gods dwell.