Quotes About Determination

Their faces were set, determined; there was no give in them. For countless centuries men like these had held the Drenai Empire together.

Most men just react to circumstances, but thinkers create the circumstances. If

A man must fight for life even when he believes all is lost.

Life is unfair. Do you think your enemies will sit back and wait until you are fresh? Learn to marshal your strength.

Well," said Decado, "the great Tertullian was once asked what he would do if he was attacked by a man stronger, faster, and infinitely more skillful than he." "What did he say?" "He said he would cut off his damned head for being a liar.

he who fears to lose will never win.

Falling on your face in public might be embarrassing, but not making the attempt at all is an even bigger failure.

I pushed myself off and sailed out of the room. It's hard to slam a door in free fall, don't even try. You can't even swim away with an attitude. It just doesn't work. The best you can do is swim away, scowling.

If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.

Kegigihan adalah kekuatan yang tidak kelihatan, yang bisa menyingkirkan rintangan-rintangan besar.

He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this.

David Horowitz

The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he'd inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives.

He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want any pitch in particular. But the best way, he said -- which sounds almost the same, but is really very different -- is to want the very pitch you're gonna get. Including the one you can handle. But also the one that's gonna strike you out looking. And even the one that's maybe gonna bounce off your head.

him, trying to do the same.

from Egypt: "You

Even today, we must choose. Will we be marked as God's own in our hearts and in our actions? Or will we be marked as Satan's own? Will we stand for Christ, His Son, no matter the personal cost?

The mature human being goes about doing what needs to be done regardless of whether that person feels great or terrible.

The greatness of man lies in the decision to be stronger than his condition.

In another assignment, he wrote about how one day, when he refused to do extracredit homework, his mother padlocked his comic book collection in a closet; unable to pick the lock, he removed the hinges and took off the door.

He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

Courage, my friends. Take courage.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.