Quotes About Determination

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Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

Success is the product of many components, of which one of the most prominent is focus.

As a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, so every mind divided among different studies is confused and weakened.

The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

Then I'm tempted to die just to … spite him." "That's the spirit that will win us the war.

Sarah has had the middle finger of her left hand amputated] and she says that when she types: I can't rely on E,D, and C anymore. They go missing when I need them most. Pleased becomes please. Ecstasies becomes stasis.

He wouldn't give up, but if i am strict and force myself now to decide upon the precise moment in this whole story when my heart irreparably broke, it was the moment when I saw the weariness and the doubt creep into my son's small muscles as his fingers slipped, for the tenth time, from the pale oak lid.

hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

All you've seen is trouble, so you think trouble is all you're going to get.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Darlin'," he says, draining his coffee cup, "I can come up with solutions all day long and you can come up with reasons. Either you take control or all you've got left is reasons.

Mr. Nak taught me a trick. He told me to think of fear as a person who's going to be around whether he's invited or not. He said, "Think of him like a big ol' bully pain-in-the-butt cousin you cain't get rid of, an' the only way to get your binniss done is to allow him to tag along, because he's goin' to anyway. Then don't take your eye off him a minute, so he don't get the chance to make you look like a horse's patoot.

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though they may lose on an issue or come out on the wrong side in the judgment of history, their principled determination is sufficient to win them a place in people's hearts, long after they are gone.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.