Quotes About Determination

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.

that without the promise of great reward we'd be content to stay home and catch up on our flossing.

it's better to be sullen and strong than sullen and weak.

It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

SIT DOWN WITH THE plan to write something you have always wanted to write but have never managed to get around to. This time, though, you are not timing yourself. You are sitting down with the determination to write it through, even if it takes all afternoon or night. Relax and ease into it. Promise yourself you'll burn through, put the real stuff down, and not get in your own way.

If you missed the mouse today, you'll get it tomorrow. You never leave who you are. If you are a writer when writing, you are also a writer when you are cooking, sleeping, walking. And if you are a mother, a painter, a horse, a giraffe, or a carpenter, you will bring that into your writing, too.

Jump in, no excuses. Exert the force of your life. Persevere under all circumstances.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

he's stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he's a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn't want.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

Geography is fate.

It was her stunning blend of confidence and competence that inspired them, her indomitable will, her ability to bend a harsh landscape to her own ends, to do what needed to be done to provide for herself and her family every day, without fail.

Put bluntly, it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe "responding to it constructively" means you ignore it altogether.