Quotes About Determination

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

When something frightens them, they do not run but go to face it. They take up arms and go to the front. They are not afraid to live, and to die, too, if they have to: they already know that, too is a part of life.

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.

I had then two reasons to live: one, to work with the resistance movement and help as long as I could stand upon my feet; two, to dream and pray for the day to come when I could go free and tell the world, "This is what I saw with my own eyes. It must never be allowed to happen again!

What do you expect us to do?" "Set the wheels in motion. Punish the culprits. Change the law." "That's too much. You can't want all those things," he said. "Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want," I shouted furiously

Dear brothers, we give you the right to choose your death.

She had tried to lose Effie. Had succeeded for a while, too, during the height of her social success in Milhampton. But Effie hadn't stayed lost. Effie was the sort of woman whom you can grind your heel on the dirt and it won't kill her loyalty. Like a worm. Cut her feelings of friendship for you in two, and the parts will still wriggle

This wasn't the time to lie down and submit. What if the world was treating her like a bunch of cruel boys a dog—kicking her from all sides, all at once? She mustn't put her tail between her legs and yelp and hug the ground. She must stand up and bristle her back, and snarl, and show her teeth if necessary. And she would, too! Oh, there was a lot of fight left in her yet.

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

The first blow is half the battle.

She was all of a muck of sweat.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

backing down can become a way of life

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Hard is the stone but harder still, the delicate performing will which guided by a dream alone subdues and molds the hardest stone....

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.