Quotes About Determination

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before they come to a standstill... The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

Combattete le debolezze e lavorate per superarle.

The individual can do nothing and yet he can do everything.… I am on the side of struggle.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

Opera producer Larry Kelly

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.