Quotes About Determination

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

When one's life begins with a dead twin brother in a two-room shack with no electricity, rags in the cracks to keep out the winter cold, and a flower in a milk bottle for decoration in the summer, the world can seem angry and ungiving; a teat of sour milk.

But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole layout that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.

Cornelius rose. He dried his eyes. For his spirit and will were waterproof.

To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune.

Michael was more likely to break through his attackers with his power and strength.

Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. WILL DURANT

They were a tough, fiery team led by guard Allen Iverson who that year at six feet, 165 pounds, became the smallest player ever to win the MVP award. Iverson dismissed talk of a sweep, pointing to his heart and saying, "Championships are won here.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.

Burton struggled to get up onto his feet. Nobody, not even God, was going to punch Richard Burton in the ribs and get away without a battle.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

Stuart said, "I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again?" He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. "Yes," Bonny said. "Then I will," he said. "But I came up out of the sidewalk; I didn't stay there. And I'll come up again.

Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were.

It's a fact. I can't get faith or enthusiasm by willing it. Deciding to.