Quotes About Determination

she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare.

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper.

Bad times don't last long. It's all about how you look at the situation. You can either get stuck in that shit or move past it. It's good that you pushing through.

It was necessary because she needed to do it. This is what made it necessary.

But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

Pause for a moment, you wretched weakling, and take stock of yourself.

When the going gets tough the tough get going

The women kept washing floors. It seemed to be what they did in difficult times. Unvarying things, she saw, must have a deeper value than we know.

In other words if I give up now I'll almost surely give up in the more important contests of the future." "That's it exactly, Gary." "I'm giving up," I said.

God is guts" — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad "The Little Red God

At what point is it acceptable to give up?

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.

because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. In

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

you must work on improving your skills every day and never quit. In

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Emerson's quote, "What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

How many bites of the apple do you get?