Quotes About Determination

if you're not happy with who you're waking up with most mornings, make a change -- if you want something (or someone) else, go for it.

Vikings, it seems, make their own way.

The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. 2It is the answer. 3The desire to have it and the willingness to let it come precede its coming.

Lessons in Leadership: My Rules to Live By© • Be true to yourself • Do the right thing • Remember that actions speak louder than words • Put first things first • Just do it

Confidence spark If you're feeling shaky about taking an action that could prove risky, use this exercise to determine if the action is what I call a best bet, a smart risk worth taking. First, analyze the pros and cons. Say you're offered a job working for a start-up company. How many pluses and minuses can you list? Which do you have more of? Second,

The biggest takeaway from them is that you can act with presence even when you don't feel 100 percent sure of yourself.

Confidence is about stepping up over and over again, looking fear in the face and moving ahead anyway.

Mucho antes de que Billy Wilder fuera Billy Wilder, ya se comportaba como si fuera Billy Wilder

I've done it before. I can do it again" is the mantra of this pressure solution.

These small wins matter more because they are so much more likely to occur compared to the big break-throughs in the world. If we only waited for the big wins, we would be waiting a long time. And we would probably quit long before we saw anything tangible come to fruition. What you need instead of big wins is simply the forward momentum that small wins bring.

The goal: for Ax to become familiar with feeling pressure so that he could learn to ignore it and do his job, no matter how stressful it got.

Ich war so was wie ein Wunderkind in Sachen Physik und Mathematik, wollte Kernphysiker werden, habe dann aber über den Schriftsteller Hans Henny Jahnn promoviert. Ich habe sämtliche meiner Karrieren zerstört, bevor sie anfingen. Das mache ich immer noch so.

If at first you don't succeed . . . so much for skydiving.

Ah, there are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No I recover myself they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

La liberté, il y en a partout. Il faut juste avoir le courage de la prendre.

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

El artista comienza con una visión, una operación creativa que requiere un esfuerzo. La creatividad requiere coraje.

Henri Philippe Pétain

Oh courage… oh yes! If only one had that… Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.