Quotes About Determination

So often, we pretend we've made a decision, when what we've really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.     ââ'¬â€Jen Sincero; author, coach, self-quoter

Because so often when we say we're unqualified for something, what we're really saying is that we're too scared to try it, not that we can't do it.

I don't need "support." I need . . . I need . . . It occurs to me that I have no idea how that sentence might end.

That's the way dreams can be, son. The reality of them can sneak up on you. Doesn't mean you shouldn't follow them, though. It just means that sometimes there are things you have to give up in order to do so.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

No importa cuántos fracasos puede que tenga en el futuro. Lo único que importa es que siga avanzando. El único fracaso real es el dejar de intentarlo.

Good people with strong convictions could overturn any injustice if they simply refused to quit.

What will I do? I'll do as I have always done, darling. I will go on. I will survive. I shall overcome." It's tough to manage sounding like Scarlett O'Hara, Gloria Gaynor, and a one-woman civil rights movement all at the same time, but Anjoli pulled it off with aplomb.

If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

Have you talked to North? he said. Yes, she said. I asked him to get us cable. I wish you weren't talking to him. I'd talk to Satan to get cable, Andie said.

I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

He won't say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him.

Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.

She met his eyes and playing fair lost its appeal. "You are not going to forget me," she said, her chin up. "I don't give a damn what your plans are, you still want me. Just don't expect me to sit around waiting until you get your commitment problem worked out because I'm getting a brand-new life with this haircut, and it's going to include a brand-new sex life, too. Sorry you won't be joining me.

Of course you might get shot, but you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. She handed him a plate of deviled eggs. Have one.

It's amazing what you find you are made of when you dig deeply enough to figure out.

After a few hours they stopped to have soup, but Wanda kept going alone, eager for the window of opportunity to be the first woman on the summit.

But she was determined to do it, independent of all the circumstances and obstacles; she was this kind of person. Once she decided something, she was determined to do it and she did it.

She had done it alone, without support or gas, and when she had come off the mountain, she had been an instant star, chased through airports by reporters and hounded for interviews

Finally he and his partner Gary Ball were driven off the mountain by a storm, while Lydia, feeling strong and confident, continued climbing alone.

Once again, the show became life imitating art, imitating life, because we went in with this whole boxing thing—you're down but not out, and no matter what's happening in your life, you keep fighting.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.