Quotes About Determination

He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would.

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

I'm a good self-starter when it comes to guilt.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Nothing is impossible Mario, you just gotta believe

Julian wore his favorite good-luck red-striped soccer jersey. He was planning to make money to build cement walls for his mother's house. He was recently married, and he and his wife were expecting a child that October. His father said Julian had promised to "always behave with respect," and that he would do nothing to cost his father his feelings of pride. He had a note from his bridge in his pocket.

Okay," he said, informing the universe he was ready for decisive action.

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

Pressure is a great motivator

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Mirá, Nati, al que voy a echar por el tubito y listo es al perro