Quotes About Determination

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

we will do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard ...

This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues - courage. 'Grace under pressure', Earnest Hemingway defined it.

We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.

3. Alegerea Cruta-l pana moare. Chinuie-l pana traieste.

Trebuie s? faci întotdeauna ceva. Când crezi cu adev?rat în ceva, trebuie s? acÈ›ionezi. A te mulÈ›umi s? vorbeÈ™ti despre acÈ›iune este ca È™i cum te-ai l?uda dinainte cu tablourile pe care ai de gând s? le pictezi. E de cel mai îngrozitor prost gust.

PoÈ›i accepta f?r? s? ierÈ›i, dup? cum poÈ›i lua o hot?râre f?r? s-o pui neap?rat în aplicare.

It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

He won't be happy till he gets it, said Michael, at last: The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is.

MACHEATH Is there any power, any force that could tear me from thee? You might sooner tear a pension out of the hands of a courtier, a fee from a lawyer, a pretty woman from a looking glass, or any woman from quadrille.—But to tear me from thee is impossible! AIR XVI—Over the Hills and Far Away Were I laid on Greenland's coast, And in my arms embrac'd my lass; Warm amidst eternal frost, Too soon the half-year's night would pass.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

The main difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is the knowledge of how to get back up.

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!