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Quotes About Determination

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.
~ CLAMP
Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!
~ CLAMP
Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.
~ CLAMP
You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?
~ CLAMP
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
~ Clara Barton
Dutch liberator William the Silent: "It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake; it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.
~ Unknown
Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.
~ Unknown
Anna and Diana were the bravest and the toughest and the most successful.
~ Unknown
Jessy should control the whole process, from the determination of the stressor and the identification of the problem behavior, to the choice of the reward, taken from her treasury of Enthusiasms.
~ Unknown
a very real danger that such dribbling will engross an entire lifetime.
~ Unknown
And really, does anybody believe that Michelangelo just decided to carve the David one day and went out and bought a slab of marble?
~ Unknown
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
~ Clarence Darrow
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
~ Clarence Darrow
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
~ Clarence Jordan
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
~ Clarence Thomas
To know when to quit. Whether to give up--this is often the question facing the gambler. No one is taught the art of walking away. And the anguish of deciding if I should keep playing is hardly unusual. Will I be able to quit honorably? or am I the type who waits stubbornly for something to happen? something like, for instance, the end of the world? or whatever it might be, maybe my own sudden death, in which case my decision to give up would be beside the point.
~ Clarice Lispector
The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
~ Clarice Lispector
Enquanto eu tiver perguntas e não houver resposta continuarei a escrever.
~ Clarice Lispector
the greatest obstacle to my progress is me. I myself have been the biggest difficulty in my path. It's with enormous effort that I'm able to overcome myself.
~ Clarice Lispector