Quotes About Determination

He either fears his fate too much / Or his deserts are small / That puts it not unto the touch / To win or lose it all.

O thou undaunted daughter of desires!

Virginia Stauffer

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day.

I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life, He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith. He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way....They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to His will.

make an active decision

The clear lesson here is that consistent and unwavering people, in the private or public sector, can move groups and practices in their preferred direction. More

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all, would be hard indeed!

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Every invention, every innovation in the history of the world, has been laughed at. Columbus was renounced as a faker; Morse was called a crank; Franklin a fool; Charles Darwin ridiculed for years. It seems to be the fate of every man or woman who discovers a new fact, to be made the subject of attacks of the most violent nature, without rhyme or reason.

Richard Hough

Viktor Frankl concluded that in the last resort "everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."4

Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.

I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it.

Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine.

No amount of reasonable threats prevailed.