Quotes About Determination

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I do make an attempt to always get that first take…. You're not stepping up to bunt. You're stepping up to hit the damn thing.

Well, you gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

Clint Richmond

Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.

A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods.

In those days you matched a block of balsa against a rudimentary diagram and got going with a razor blade, which sliced your thumb as readily as it carved the balsa. If the result was recognizable as an aeroplane, you were an expert. If your thumb was recognizable as a thumb, you were a genius.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

Noël Coward's comment about the secret of success being the capacity to survive failure.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

As a leader, you obtain a sense of the better soldiers during training. They have a quiet confidence about them and a swagger that sets them apart.