Quotes About Determination

A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won't succeed.

I'd sacrificed my sense of self in the hope that somehow it would pay off,

knew that I was scrappy enough to learn the role and do it well.

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

The boy in this mirror was steel and frost and a bloodied knife. And he wasn't afraid of anything.

But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.

The key to living in a way that fat, broke & lonely can't touch is to get back i the game as soon as you realize you're out of it. This doesn't come from kicks and phases. It arises from inserting, one at a time, features of the life you want into the life you've got. When you see that you've fallen into an old pattern, get back to the new one. Otherwise you'll be caught up in a soap opera with only one plot

You never know what a man -- or a woman -- has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?" my mother demanded. "Or the kind who fights to find out what something's really worth?

If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.

Always resent, never relent.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

This was what few people realize—it's hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The

By now the only part of me not seating were my eyeballs... An X-ray of my skull would have shown a hamster running furiously in an exercise wheel...

Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds, volunteering to give up everything because they had nothing.

You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply was low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

Strong and healthy, that's what these twins will be. They'll need to be. This country isn't for the weak or the fat.

Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve.

There are those who will say that I brought this upon myself. By dabbling in that quiz show. They will wag a finger at me and remind me of what the elders in Dharavi say about never crossing the dividing line that separates the rich from the poor. After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.