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Quotes About Determination

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
~ Minna Thomas Antrim
High o'er the fence leaps Sunny Jim 'Force' is the food that raises him.
~ Unknown
The only way through this reality is to fight.
~ Unknown
Alçant els punys pots percudir la lluna.
~ Unknown
Rah-e-talab mein girey hote munh ke bal hum bhi Shikasta-paayi ne apni hamein sambhaal liya
~ Unknown
I hurtled myself against it before realizing I had to press down the latch.
~ Unknown
I decided, right there in the darkness of the hallway, that I wanted this.
~ Miranda July
The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.
~ Miranda July
I had written the same word seven thousand times attempting to alchemize time.
~ Miranda July
i had no money for the bus, so i walked. it was an incredible distance. a horse would get tired galloping there. when birds flew there, it was called migration.
~ Miranda July
I walked to the car and wished that I could walk toward the car forever, with this confidence about where I was headed.
~ Miranda July
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
~ Miranda Lambert
Rise against what is before you!
~ Unknown
Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.
~ Unknown
just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
~ Miriam Toews
On, narode, sve?e, mu?eni?e! Zašto putuješ u tre?oj klasi? I zašto uop?e putuješ? Zaustavi vlak! Okreni ga da te vozi kamo ti ho?eš. A ne kamo on ho?e. Skreni ga sa kolosijeka - nek' te vozi k sre?i! Što se mu?iš i patiš?
~ Miroslav Krleža
Ali jaha? mora da znade kamo ho?e! To je ono! Jer onda konj vodi, ako jaha? ne drži uzde. Jao jaha?u koga konj vodi! A vas konj vodi, moja gospodo. Vaš konj ide kamo ho?e!
~ Miroslav Krleža
On je heroj po svom juna?kom ''pogledu na svijet''.
~ Miroslav Krleža
I to je baš bilo ono divno u toj stvari: stajati u katastrofi uz jednog ?ovjeka, koji je smion, a ima iza sebe sve i obra?unao je sa svim! S takvom jednom snagom, koja se zanosi njegovom vlastitom snagom, dalo bi se stvarati!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Head up, back like a ramrod, Dotty faced her solicitor. Tears were coursing down her papery old cheeks and splashing unchecked upon the fur coat. But, through the tears, Dotty's expression was one of utter triumph.
~ Miss Read
Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.
~ Unknown
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.
~ Mitch McConnell
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
~ Mitch McConnell