Quotes About Determination

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.

Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Blood is just red sweat.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.