Quotes About Determination

I'm not ready for this!" I hissed. "I'm probably going to fall flat on my face!" " Probably has nothing to do with it; you shall. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

What are you doing? I'm trying - You are not, my girl. There are two sort of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I'm trying to make you the former. Now concentrate, girl!

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

Éramos brutalmente ambiciosos. Aspirávamos ao fracasso. Mas não a um fracasso qualquer, sem quê nem pra quê: aspirávamos a um fracasso total, radical e absoluto. Era nosso modo de aspirar ao sucesso.

La valía de un hombre se mide por la cantidad de enemigos que tiene.

Regard every "no" as a "not today" and a step closer to "yes.

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.

You are now required to know what you want and where to get it. You are in charge of manufacturing your own luck.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

through gritted teeth, "is to look through

Travis looked up. He stared at the recorder and then he looked at Jack. "Everyone said you were just a small-time security company," he said. "I am a small-time security company," Jack said. "But I've got aspirations.

No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.

He had made his decision regarding Molly with great care and consideration.

forces of nature. A man either ran for

resist. Six months from now she would have enough saved

Determination was a superpower, but like any power, it could be used for bad ends.

Entrego-me cegamente ao impulso que me arrasta.

The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine

Without resistance you can do nothing.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it!

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

You're only as successful as the last book you published, and you're only as good as the next book you're writing. So shut up and write.

Every free action has two causes which concur in producing it, one moral, namely the will which determines it, the other physical, namely the power which executes it.