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Quotes About Determination

Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.
~ Mindy Kaling
when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.
~ Mindy Kaling
But for years I just chose to never do any strength training because it seemed hard. It wasn't until a particularly disturbing night when I couldn't lift myself off the sofa because of lack of upper body strength that I decided it was time to see a trainer. I
~ Mindy Kaling
It was too much, but at the time, I felt invincible.
~ Mindy Kaling
write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. I was surprised that my overwhelming feeling was not sadness; it was terror. What on earth am I going to do now?
~ Mindy Kaling
write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere.
~ Mindy Kaling
If you don't see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.
~ Mindy Kaling
Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.
~ Mindy Kaling
Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in the prison play, it's this: write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine. Now, excuse me, I need to lie down and watch Sheldon.
~ Mindy Kaling
I'm not proud of it, and it;s a little embarrassing to write, but sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work.
~ Mindy Kaling
Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine. Now,
~ Mindy Kaling
There are more than a thousand people in one square mile of this studio who would kill to have this job. Get your ass up off the floor and go back into that writers' room, you weakling. Then I get up, pour myself a generous glass of whiskey and club soda, think about the sustained grit of my parents, and go back to work. I know that made me sound like a tortured alcoholic, like Don Draper, but I swear I'm not.
~ Mindy Kaling
For there were good men. As long as we women remembered to be strong. As long as we remembered to be ourselves
~ Unknown
Courage is merely fear that's said its prayers
~ Unknown
Dont stop when you are tired, stop only when you are done
~ Unknown
It 's time to stop running away and start running towards something
~ Unknown
So we support the dance but it does not support us.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
that even while caught in a stormy sea, they must keep dancing, dance on through the rolling waves so that when they finally surged up toward the open air, their grace and joy would light up the world.
~ Unknown
Unlocking our potential requires education, experience, and determination. One should never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop going on adventures.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Followers of Tao therefore do not emphasize enlightenment as an ultimate goal. For them, realization is a means, not an end. Their emphasis is on the act of living. They use the word longevity, not because they want to live forever, but because it symbolizes their determination to live the entire course of their lives well.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Make your stand today. On this spot. On this day.
~ Ming-Dao Deng