Quotes About Determination

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

La vita è come il tennis vince chi serve meglio

That what unlocks you, even today, is what you want to want. In what you value. And what you value's married to those certain things you just won't do . And here's a cliché that's earned its status as a cliché: whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars.

It you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

Agassi, who is 25 (and of whom you have heard and then some), is kind of Michael Joyce's hero. Just last week, at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington D.C., in wet-mitten heat that had players vomiting on-court and defaulting all over the place, Agassi beat Joyce in the third round of the main draw, 6

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.

He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of a wasp or serpent his hatred rushed out armed and poisonous against anything like opposition. He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?   As

Lower himself! says the lady, with a toss of her head. No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!

He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way – and like the sting of a wasp or serpent his hatred rushed out armed and poisonous against anything like opposition. He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dulness takes the lead in the world?

Count on, rest not, for hope is dead.

B UT, knowing now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow

If you must fight, fight to win

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

ednoho záÃ…â"¢ijového dne si uvÄ›domil, že už se definitivne musí rozhodnout. Pro jedno nebo pro druhé. Bu? z?stat a j?šte hloubÄ›ji upadnout do tísnivé ne?innosti a zoufalství, anebo si najít cestu, která vede ke svÄ›tu tam venku...

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.

William Shakespeare

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.