Quotes About Determination

I got myself there. No one does anything for me. So I know when I meet the right guy, it's not going to be someone like my dad. It's not going to be someone who needs me. It's going to be someone who can, for once in my life, be a hero. I'm hoping guys like that still exist.

I haven't given up," I said. "I've just decided to live for my roses.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.

Strength in someone is not defined by the way they fall down, but the way they get up

Man is not free from conditions. But he is free to take a stand in regard to them. The conditions do not completely condition him.

She saw. But she went her own way just the same.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished.

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

I am built for this terrible pain, I told myself, and sent myself on my way.

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

They had the faces of angels and the determination of demons.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider ó and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation ó persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.