Quotes About Determination

Phillis Wheatley

Brilliance is born of desperation.

Jaycee Clark

Believe and Succeed

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Who the hell do you think you are, Jones? The man they sent to take care of the monsters on Rainshadow, Cyrus said.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't, because they didn't.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.

That's what a man does—he takes a look at the cards life deals out, and he doesn't give up and he doesn't whine about his sorry lot. He hunkers down and figures out what he can do with them.

No hay nada más bello que un hombre cuando avanza. El soldado que sale de las filas y declara que él es voluntario. El torero que sale del burladero, despide a sus peones y despliega su capa... Todo se resquebraja en el corazón de los otros hombres cuando uno de ellos avanza dos pasos, se separa del grupo y forja, así, en derredor suyo, la infranqueable barrera del respeto

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.

Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.

must do the thing you think you cannot do,