Quotes About Determination

The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi.

El mundo es de quienes van a buscarlo.

Alors j'avance, contre vents et marées, j'avance parce qu'il ne faut pas céder au désespoir, parce qu'il faut savoir faire d'une épreuve une raison de la surmonter.

Elle soulève son magnifique sourcil, et, du doigt, met met en garde : - le courage de certaines bonnes intentions est qu'elles n'ont ni le courage de leurs engagements ni de suite dans leurs idées.

Go about your work with a quiet confidence that cannot be shake...No matter what happens, remember if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.' (Ducky Drake, UCLA Track Coach)

Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.

Shorten is one of that interesting pack of politicians born of determined mothers and largely absent fathers. There are so many: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are distinguished alumni. Among recent Labor leaders in Australia are Rudd, Albanese and Shorten. Among the qualities these men share are self-discipline, boundless ambition and an appetite for approval on a national scale.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it." "It's not through choice," Sam protested faintly. "Then you must choose to overcome. What happens if you keep giving in to a weak mind? You feed weakness. The result is an even weaker mind in the future. Instead, you must cultivate confidence!

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness, a weak mind that had to be overcome.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

Generally speaking, motivation always comes first,

impulse control is critical if we are to cultivate the habits of success.

If he had really wanted to control himself, he could have. He simply had not wanted to control himself. To live his way, he had been determined to fight anyone who interfered. So all right then, in a way he had fought for a principle. But it was not that simple, because he had also been proud and delighted to show how good he was at fighting.

he needed a crocodile sample to get out. Damned if he cared if it was some mutant crocodile that ran around on its back feet fighting tigers, he was going home.

We'll handle this ourselves." Then the line went dead before Mack could point out that there was a confused army between them and "'handling"' it.

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

At some point you'll have to get serious about life.

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Work hard at . . . something.