Quotes About Determination

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

You don't belong here, Miss Kimble. You're completely in over your head. Learn to swim, or drown. Those are your only choices when it comes to the Sullivans. Now,

It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

I had a rule about stilettos, and it was this: I didn't wear them unless I planned to kick ass in them. Stilettos were for striding and sauntering, never sulking.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

I won't say it's okay, because it's not. If you want to break up with me, Elle, then do it. But I'm not going to make it easy for you.

Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.

Basically, I wanted to get in, get on, get off, get up, get dressed and get out.

More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end. We appreciate what we've almost lost more than what we've never doubted.

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Although he had no dramatic successes to report as yet, Howe knew that he could win supporters by showing them a few blind children working together in a schoolroom to master the rudiments of spelling, mathematics, and even geography from specially crafted globes—unthinkable anywhere in the United States until now.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

YOU'RE GONNA GET BUMPED BY THE BEST MAN BRAND IN THE BUSINESS.

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!