Quotes About Determination

When in doubt, take a bath...

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind. p.175 from "Giving Money in the Street

You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers—read the script.

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

I swam in dangerous waters, both metaphorically and literally. It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer.

The problem is," her brother says, striding through the attic, through the words scattered on the floor, making the curls of paper skitter and swirl around his boots, "that I have no talent for it. I cannot abide waiting.

It has been drummed into her by physicians and priests alike that the character of a child is determined by the mother's thoughts at the moment of conception.

and she picked up the glass from the table and she threw it to the floor, smash. I sat tight on the chair. She stamped her foot, like Rumpelstiltskin, and shouted, I will not go, I will not, you can't make me, I hate him, I despise him.

guards run after the cart, their hats in their

She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

Maggie Osborne

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

If we think of defeat, that's what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that's what we will get.

If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.