Quotes About Determination

Usually, in daily life, we are motivated to do something, then we do it. But when mood is low, we have to do something before the motivation comes.

When mood is low, motivation follows action, rather than the other way around. When you put the action first, motivation follows.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.

I can't swim farther than from here to the far side of a whiskey glass.

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

If Pleasant Carter was jealous of his dashing younger brother with his automobile and his pockets full of crisp dollar bills, he never expressed it. But what he saw happening all around him made it harder and harder for him to see himself as a lifelong dirt farmer. A.P.'s wandering gene was always getting the better of him.

Grumbling wouldn't get him there any faster, but it vastly improved his mood.

The dwarf stood his ground.

Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax!

Markus Heitz

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

Cuando fracasa el primer intento [de rebelión], lo que, generalmente, suele ocurrir, nos rendimos hasta el siguiente, que ya será más debil y que nos volverá todavía más miserables y derrotados.

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.

Hay gente que no hace más que soñar y hay gente que no hace más que actuar, y ambas cosas son buenas y malas. La gente como Josey no tiene visión y la gente como yo no tiene impulso para pasar a la acción.

There was this gate and it was just some rusty gate but I knew I had to get through it. The only way forward is through. Who said that? I had to get through it, if I didn't I would die, get cut open, sliced with a knife from the neck right down to labia with me screaming all the time, I just had to get through the fucking gate.

But sometime, a negro get tired of white man stomping so he grab the foot, twist and break it. Sometime a negro say, Enough done be enough now.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.