Quotes About Determination

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If it was a piece of paper, I would tear it. If it was a bottle, I would break it. If it was a wall, I would tear it down, but it is my heart.

He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the one man.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

El riesgo de una mala decisión es preferible al terror de la indecisión.

that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.

What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot. You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines.

This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can be imagined can be achieved. At the head of the stairs, he paused to straighten a mask that had been knocked askew.

Keeper had shifted the limits of my world, or maybe simply rubbed them out. Now, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, he was preparing to take a free kick at me. It

Philip managed a reasonably good impersonation of British POW ignoring a flesh wound.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm Folley

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.