Quotes About Determination

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Achievers are believers.

One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.

A man's measure is his will.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell.

I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?

those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!

Steel Watch

Life is yours... Claim it...!

Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more she liked the idea of seeing her own poem in the paper. After all, the words "published poet" would look awfully good on those Ivy League college applications. "You know what?" Taylor said. "What?" Sharpay snapped. Hands on hips, Taylor stepped forward till the girls were nose-to-nose. "Bring it on.

And how do you get on?" she added, lowering her voice. "How about the Ogre?" "He has not ground me into bread-flour yet," responded Ruth, smiling.

How much schoolin' do you want?" he demanded, harshly. "If you please Uncle Jabez, all I can get," replied Ruth.

But Ruth was the kind of a person who, in attempting a thing, did her very best to accomplish it.

Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters

some men know from birth that they are expendable they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Writing is waiting. That's the whole of it. If you sit in your chair not doing anything else for long enough, the answer will come. You do have to be in your chair, though, ready to write it down.

We're the result of the choices we make everyday, and this is my choice.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.