Quotes About Determination

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?

Here you are on the TV, saying Watch me, just watch me.

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins. His hair was brown and dry and dead, blowing around his head like a poor toupee about to fly loose. His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easily as he walked.

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

Stegman looked back at him. "I don't see no gun," he said. "I don't see no weapon." Parker held up his hands. "You see two of them," he said. "They're all I need.

And so, the success of Donald Trump is equal parts finale for the Boomers and inspiration for the Millennials—they weren't just angry, they were determined. And unless someone reverses the laws of nature in the next few years, they are also 100 percent unstoppable

Conditions plus principles determine strategy.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

Rule 6. Dedicate Your Life to Something

Richard Townshend Bickers

Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.

There are a thousand ways to say no — but, I can't, it's impossible, it's too late — but there's only one way to say yes: with your whole being. When you do that you chose that word, it becomes the most spiritual word in the universe and your world can change.

Beggary. It's not the sole

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.

praising effort encourages people to stretch themselves, work hard, and persist in the face of difficulties.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

Credo quia impossibile