Quotes About Determination

And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon.

We can do it, whether it can be done or not." Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy's reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won't be there anymore. The walls of the school will fall away, and you'll be on your own. The hours that you will then put into practice, study, auditions, and creation will be entirely up to you.

For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Because if you love and want something enough—whatever it is—then you don't really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because—please believe me—we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.

We were so committed to solving this thing. Because how could two people so in love NOT end up happily ever after? It HAD to work. Didn't it?

He realized that "failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.

You may want your work to be perfect, in other words; I just want mine to be finished.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: "You think you can scare me off? I've got another eighty years to wear you down! There are people who haven't even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday—that's how long I plan to stick around.

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?

Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. This

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea—that it is ultimately entirely up to you—the better off you'll be.

Lapse saamine on umbes nagu oma näo tätoveerimine. Sa pead ikka raudselt kindel olema, et see on just see, mida sa tahad.

I saw it as proof that you must never surrender, that no doesn't always mean no, and that miraculous turns of fate can happen to those who persist in showing up.

So the question is not so much What are you passionate about? The question is What are you passionate enough about that you can endure even the most disagreeable aspects of the work.

What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?

Onward ever, backward never.

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.