Quotes About Determination

A man with a mace for a hand stood in front of the gates with a frown that undoubtedly took centuries to perfect.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

When you hit a wall, just kick it in.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I wiped the shit from my shoes again and again, still going about my business, that of being alive, the best I could.

I wasn't worried, though. I just needed a break and I wasn't going to give up.

The knowledge of him added swagger to my step and this could not be stripped away.

Se você bater no muro, não pare.

We weathered all things, large and small, with the same vigor.

Just because you're bossy," I tell her, "doesn't mean you're wrong.

RESIGN! It's the way to show you mean business. If people constantly reject your ideas/ what you have to offer, resign. You can't keep fighting and losing that makes you a problem. If you are good, and right for the job, resignation will not be accepted. You'll be re-signed in your own term. If they accept your resignation, you were in the wrong job, and it's better for you to move on. It takes courage, but it is the right move.

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.

If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make it your business to be there.

Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

and if he could survive the experience without completely losing heart, then perhaps there was some hope for him after all. By sticking with the cab, he wasn't trying to make the best of a bad situation. He was looking for a way to make things happen, and until he understood what those things were, he wouldn't have the right to release himself from his bondage.

Sólo de la constancia nacen las grandes cosas

No importa lo que digan los demás; lo único importante es mantenerse en pie.

La vida se metió por medio —dos años en el ejército, trabajo, matrimonio, responsabilidades familiares, necesidad de ganar cada vez más dinero, toda esa cagada que nos deja empantanados cuando no tenemos los cojones de luchar por lo que queremos—, pero nunca perdí el interés por los libros.

Find yourself drowning in a sea of trouble, and hard work can become the raft that ends up keeping you afloat.