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Quotes About Determination

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.
~ Unknown
Your brain can only absorb what your ass can endure.
~ Unknown
chocolate brown eyes. And attitude—tons of it.
~ Unknown
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
~ P. T. Barnum
I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark
~ P.C. Cast
The old, defiant chant rose in her mind: If I want, I will learn. If I want, I will fight. If I want, I will live. And I want. And I will. This was going to be fun.
~ Unknown
Your problems are never bigger than you are. It's a geometric impossibility. Though sometimes it may feel like they're larger than an elephant. Okay?
~ Unknown
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ Unknown
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
~ Unknown
Mind is everything. Muscle — pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
~ Paavo Nurmi
Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).
~ Unknown
Rodolfo, su hijo, trató de retenerlo, Reyes se zafó. «La suerte está echada», dicen que dijo, y puso su caballo al trote; «por imprudente y engreído», diría Mondragón más tarde.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
que busca la verdad da un chingo de lata, pero su fin justifica las molestias…
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
El futuro será como quiera que sea, pero alguien tiene que hacerlo
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Can you imagine doing something in your life that will be fully satisfying and redeeming for your having tried to do it, whether you succeeded in it or failed, and that, correspondingly, would be fully shameful had you not tried to do it?
~ Padgett Powell
Hearing doctors tell you that you can't get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.
~ Padma Lakshmi
She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done
~ Padma Lakshmi
God did raise a finger to stop you. Here I am. Guess which finger." ~Emma Jane Hellsbane, /Hellsbane series Book 1/
~ Unknown
Life Is Like A Train But We Have To Become Engine Which Controls The Train
~ Unknown
we humans decide in advance how we're going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see.
~ Pam Grout
mantra that "I can write through anything" to
~ Pam Jenoff
My eyes begin to sting. I brush my hand across them impatiently. Crying isn't going to help. I have to figure out what to do.
~ Pam Jenoff
Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something," he said with determination
~ Pam Jenoff