Quotes About Determination

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance.

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

In everyone's life there are important moments where you're going to have to fight for something. Just make sure you haven't used your capital over something that wasn't worth fighting over to begin with - Nina Totenberg

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on

in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured and oppressed country until I see peace and liberty restored or nobly die in the attempt."2

Wie niet helemaal bereikt wat hij bereiken wil, raakt niet los van de vraag, of hij niet beter elke moeite iets te bereiken zou kunnen opgeven, in plaats van te doen of iets anders bereiken hem kan troosten voor het feit dat hij niet bereikt heeft, wat hij oorspronkelijk wou.

Hellingafwaards. Je wil wel, maar moet lopen alsof je niet wil.

Waarom huilen? Beter nooit huilen. Er is maar één keus: het loodje leggen of volhouden. Als je eenmaal hebt besloten vol te houden, huil dan niet. Nooit opgeven, nooit en nooit en nooit. Het is trouwens de vraag of je dit kan beslissen. Waarschijnlijk is het leven een brok lijm, waarin je bijt en waaruit je je tanden nooit meer los kan trekken.

Some start in life without any leading objective at all; some with a low one; and some aim high—and just in proportion to the elevation at which they aim will be their progress and success.

Resolution is almost omnipotent. Those little words "try" and "begin" are sometimes great in their results. "I can't" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has achieved wonders.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

It does not matter how smart you are, or how pretty, or if you have money and many friends. If you do not have courage, you will never blossom into the flower you were meant to be." "I

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.

The Stoics, for example, did not sit around apathetically, resigned to whatever the future held in store; to the contrary, they spent their days working to affect the outcome of future events.

And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else, and as a result, there is a very real danger that they will mislive.

Vay haline, bilmemesi gerekeni bilmek isteyenin ve gücünü aÅŸan bir iÅŸe giriÅŸen gözüpek kiÅŸinin.

You may outgun me, outman me, and outspend me. But I'm a writer. I will outplot you.

Walking was her only hope. A slender hope, but all she had. So she put one foot in front of the other. And walked.