Quotes About Determination

The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The

At no point did I break down," Mrs. Nimitz later recalled. "I was brought up by my mother to take what's coming, and you don't weep over it. You have to go through things.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I'm bullshit proof.

He was just a Deep South chump driven to

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

From the time I made my first recording in 1983, I was already telling cats like Spike, "Nah, I ain't hitting that lick." I was already sliding away from it. Then, after nearly losing my life in the car crash, I really couldn't

that was when I realized that I was done. I was finished breaking the law.

running down a road—this race full of other players and hustlers—and yelling at everybody to my left and right:

there was nothing but a steep cliff. And all the dudes who were hustling with me, one by one they kept falling off that cliff.

I showed up

survival mode. I was already thinking, Okay, what's next?

to be all the fuck that I can be, you know?

hustle for a youngster. But one day, the weather turned cold and nobody bought any Kool-Aid. My pops came home and said, "How'd you do today?" "It got cold—I didn't sell anything." "Well, if they ain't buying Kool-Aid, sell 'em cookies." He wasn't trying to give me a sweeping life lesson,

got a full-time job in there paying me about thirty cents an hour. When I wasn't working in the laundry, I started writing and recording songs. This dude I met had a little cassette recorder, and over the years I recorded something like sixty songs. I studied all the rappers I loved and really

That's what we want to hear, Spike," Ice said. "Keep pushing, man. Keep doing what you're doing. Stay in touch with Al P., and we'll be there to help you when you come before the board.

The typical mistake of those who believe that management is necessarily elitist is that they assume that "management" as a group of people and "management" as a process are necessarily one and the same. But management is elitist only if a group of people monopolizes the managerial process—that is, the determination of what environmental threats and opportunities exist and how to react to them.

I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

freedom is not given... it's taken.

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.