Quotes About Determination

believe it or not this very if is everything you got

Understanding is a delaying tactic…," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.

When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn't straighten my body, however much I tried to. But I was alive. I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

When they lock the door, climb out the window. – Mr. Morrison, volunteer at the Humane Society

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

The ability to quit fully is as valuable a tool to living well as is persistence.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

If you've never seen a steel magnolia on the warpath, you've missed one of the world's greatest wonders.

People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.