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Quotes About Determination

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
~ Idries Shah
Be a tiger — if you are ready for a tiger's problems.
~ Idries Shah
The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
~ Idries Shah
Sé un tigre… si estás preparado para los problemas de un tigre.
~ Idries Shah
El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.
~ Idries Shah
No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.
~ Idries Shah
Golpéate tu mano en una piedra y espera que duela.
~ Idries Shah
Dijo el rayo al roble: "¡Apártate o aguanta lo que te viene!
~ Idries Shah
Cuando aún estás fragmentado, carente de certezas: ¿qué importa la índole de tus decisiones?
~ Idries Shah
Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.
~ Idries Shah
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
~ Unknown
The world is like a goat's udder. It does not yield any milk, unless you punch and squeeze at it
~ Unknown
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
~ Iggy Pop
En el pragmatismo 'el hacer determina el ser', el carácter depende de la acción, nos formamos conforme avanzamos, gracias a nuestras propias elecciones.
~ Unknown
Fifth Rule. The fifth: In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.
~ Unknown
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
~ Ike Turner
Success is fierce. It requires sacrifices and a reformed robust focus . So don't give up now if you want TRUE success.
~ Unknown
It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.
~ Ilchi Lee
Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.
~ Ilchi Lee
Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.
~ Ilchi Lee
Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one.
~ Ilchi Lee
IT wasn't a blues, it wasn't a country song, and it wasn't even from Hank Williams' pen, but "Lovesick Blues" was the spark that ignited his career. It
~ Unknown
He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.
~ Colin Falconer