Quotes About Determination

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

Keep up and you will be kept up.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.