Quotes About Determination

He strode right up to the door of her cabin, seized the latch, and yanked. Locked. "Open the door, Maeve." "Rot in hell, you wretch!" "Open the damned door, Maeve." "I said, go to—" He raised his foot, drew back, and with all his strength, kicked the latch. Once, twice—and then the door crashed open under the force of his blows and he was in the cabin and striding angrily across the tiny space.

Really, Doctor, why do they insist upon giving us such a devil of a time?

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

I'm always telling myself that my primary goal is to be the best I can be at this time, and if I keep that as my focus, I'll always be okay with myself and where I am right now.

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.

I don't want to give up anymore. I want to be strong and stand for what I think even in the face of those most spiteful.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you're having a good day.

I'm going to wake up. I'm

As Albert Einstein said, "One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

What is one thing that I currently do that you'd like me to continue to do? What is one thing that I don't currently do frequently enough that you think I should do more often? • What can I do to make you more effective?

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

In three decades of working with patients, I have found that when you tell your brain what you want, your brain will help you make it happen.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

Queston 1. "On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning 'not the least bit ready' and 10 meaning "totally ready", how ready are you to study? - After she offers her answer, move to: - Question 2. "Why didn't you pick a lower number?

This is one of the central findings on regret: it can deepen persistence, which almost always elevates performance.

How to stay afloat amid that ocean of rejection is the second essential quality in moving others. I call this quality "buoyancy.

As they explained, "Whereas the importance of working harder is easily apprehended, the importance of working longer without switching objectives may be less perceptible . . . in every field, grit may be as essential as talent to high accomplishment."14

If you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right.

Lark Iron Cloud, used to say that if you don't die screaming in this war, then you're fuckin' doing it wrong. At least I'm fucking doing it right.