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Quotes About Determination

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.
~ Bobby Labonte
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
~ David O. Russell
Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.
~ Jordy Smith
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.
~ Ovid
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
~ Aidan Chambers
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
~ John Armstrong
Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.
~ Stephen Goldin
Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories
~ David J. Schwartz
We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
~ Dalai Lama
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!
~ Leslie West
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
~ John Milton
All industry must be excited by hope.
~ Samuel Johnson
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.
~ Jonathan Evison
I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
~ Katarina Witt
hope is not a plan of action.
~ Susan Jacoby
I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
~ Cameron Dokey
You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton." Nick didn't blink. "Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.
~ Julie James
What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.
~ Mike Farrell
I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.
~ Francois Hollande
The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.
~ Nathan Lane
Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper