Quotes About Determination

THE TAHITIANS don't have a word that means "art." The closest expression in their language translates to something like "I'm doing the best I can." Ever since I heard this it has become a kind of mantra to me. I try and apply it to my own work, to my students and anyone who shares his or her work with me. If we live with the idea of perfection, we will never do anything. The notion paralyzes us, but doing the best we can, this is possible. I

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

He was like a fine olive tree, which when its roots are checked one way will put them out another. Summer or winter, storm or calm, his soul sought justice and the end of wrong.

He had to do them, to show he was the best.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.' (Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't. —Howard Ward Beecher

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Press on, regardless.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.

Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.

Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. GEORGE S. MERRIAM.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how to give form to an idea that seems too vague to express.

Faith is a choice