Quotes About Determination

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He seemed the kind of guy who ran through his whole life heading for something more important.

Food's my only bag. It's my gig, my art, my life. Always has been, always will be. I'm always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can't. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says "I can't" is always, always just a little bit louder.

I'm always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can't. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says "I can't" is always, always just a little bit louder.

made it my business to be tough in the ways that they were tough—on the inside, where it counted. The

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Would you risk your life for anything? If so, what would it be?

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me -- yet -- the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

That's the only way to get where you want to go: one step at a time.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Nothing fails like failure.

Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Knowledge does not bring wisdom, especially when it is cheaply and easily come by. There was peace in the learning of the past, because men earned it slowly, absorbing it into the very stuff and pattern of their lives. Now any glib fellow can get a smattering of it, and be none the less a fool, only the more dangerous. For his object will be neither wisdom nor peace, but the vulgar determination to make good his own ends, at no matter whose expense.' The

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.