Quotes About Determination

it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

sheer rock wall of

Never give up, Never say die.

The balls of this fucking girl.

Matthew Rossi

A strong spirit can change and achieve everything. I know

Had I renounced the Western world? Renunciation, at least as Buddhists use the term, is a much-misunderstood concept. It is not about giving up what is good and beautiful. How foolish that would be! Rather it is about disentangling oneself from the unsatisfactory and moving with determination toward what matters most. It is about freedom and meaning—freedom from mental confusion and self-centered afflictions, meaning through insight and loving-kindness.

L'optimiste, en revanche, est confiant dans le fait qu'il est possible de réaliser ses aspirations et qu'avec patience, détermination et intelligence, il finira par y arriver. De fait, le plus souvent, il y parvient.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

her "green light" was Harvard. "But if I don't get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing.

Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

If there was anything Eileen had learned from her mother, it was the calming effect of work. "When in doubt, do," was Beattie's motto.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in. She believes she is the best at whatever she does and proceeds through life with that knowledge. She can face any hazard that life throws her way and stay with it until she wins. She is loyal to her kinsmen and accepting of others. She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming.

enough, but when they tag-team me and Marcus, we're no

After she received her umpteenth penalty, Cam paused the game and frowned at her. "You're not even trying to score. You're just hitting Logan.

The essence of literature is to escape any essential determination, or any affirmation which stabilises or even realises it: it is never already there; it is always to be found or to be reinvented.

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

Nevertheless, as Terray declared later, nothing would ever equal those first desperate days when he put forth every ounce of his courage, strength and resolution.

Two things are certain about freedom: that we are never determined and yet that we never change, that, retrospectively, we can always find in our past the anticipation of what we have become.

True nothingness is not the nothing that noths, but a something always on the horizon,the positive determinations of which are the trace and absence.