Quotes About Determination

Okay then, smile and...

While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.

Faint-hearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.

A man's got to choose what matters to him. I made my choice. This matters.

A posture of enthusiasm is not always the one best calculated to succeed.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong. David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, April 21, 2013

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

faith is not content with asking once or twice, but will go on asking, seeking and knocking until the prayer is answered ( Luke 11:9-13).

You get nothing for coming second, son. Because if you are second, you are nothing. You are nowhere – First is first. Second is nowhere.

You've had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.

There is always one game in every season, one moment in that game, that one moment in that one game in that one season when everything can change, when things can either come together or fall apart for the rest of the season, that one moment when you know you will win this game and then the next and the next, when you know you will have a season to remember, a season never to forget.

Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.

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You can keep me out of Harvard, but you cannot keep me uneducated. As long as there are books to read, I control my education. We will fight to dismantle the barriers in higher education, but we own the education of our minds.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

Still, there was a heaviness to her manner, a kind of grim determination to get a message across, one last time.

I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

To will is truly to want something, to choose both the goal and the means to goal. This means accepting the work and the risks involved in seeing something through. To wish, on the other hand, is only to be enamored of the goal.

My instincts tell me that if people are going to such great lengths to stop me, I should go to even greater lengths to persevere. I would describe that as admirable, yet strangely most people consider it annoying and obnoxious.

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I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.