Quotes About Determination

un clavo en el muro es siempre un acto de esperanza sobre un lugar físico determinado, de esperanza y persistencia.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

For some reason, no matter how much I hate a book, I can never manage to just stop reading—I have to see it through to the bitter end.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

Who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but it is not quite as true as punk sometimes seemed to suggest that anyone can do it in a way that is appreciated by others. The key point is that, without determination and application, talent and ideas are just unrealised potential. That lesson-there for anyone who wishes to learn it-is perhaps punk's , and the Clash's, greatest legacy.