Quotes About Determination

next to Wainwright, who was already

For the senior boys," he turned his attention to the back of the hall, "you don't have a moment to lose if you hope to be offered a place at the school of your first choice. Never settle for second best.

pencil hadn't stopped scribbling

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

free will is making a comeback. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Her eyes shone, burned, intent on her mission as only a creature with no doubts as to either Creation's glory or its meaninglessness could be.

Úgy döntött, hogy nem ragadhat le, élni kell tovább.

The brain's gonna do what the brain's gonna do," I told them, "but you don't have to let it push you around.

The essential achievement of the will is to attend to one object and hold it clear and strong before the mind, letting all others-its rivals for attention and subsequent action-fade away like starlight swamped by the radiance of the Sun.

To assert a belief in free will is to accept responsibility for our actions and to recognize the mind as "more or less a first cause, an unmoved mover," as the theorist Thomas Clark says: it is to hold the view that "we could have willed otherwise in the radical sense that the will is not the explicable or predictable result of any set of conditions that held at the moment of choice.

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.

The sun's rays, focused, are much more powerful than they are without focus. The same is true for people seeking power.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing.

That which went wrong, and that which went right, would have been made easier if I were more focused on my goals.

We aren't happy by accident. This is a conscious choice, one that takes daily action.

I'm often forced to lie on the floor and use a rat-tail comb to properly zip them.

I have issues with my parents, but their greatest gift was forcing me to produce my own results. Through the ups and downs of my life, my work ethic is my most prized characteristic. No matter what kind of pinch I'm in, I can fight my way to the other side with grit and determination.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

There's nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah.