Quotes About Determination

I think, said Jane decidedly, that I should apologise to God.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by the joy of the strife. Next to trying and winning the best thing is trying and failing.

Job! It was such a rare thing to find a patient man that when one was really discovered they were determined he shouldn't be forgotten,' retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever

I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were unavoidable in cycling, and so was bad luck, and if you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

But you can't quit, either. Even if you have to walk to the finish line… ~ Linda Armstrong

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz

The man was still there. Suddenly forgetting about the snow on the street, he picked up his pace. Ahead was a long, straight, silvery-white road illuminated by the cold glare of street lamps; behind, a detective on a bicycle.

When Diana put her mind to something, nothing was allowed to stand in her way. As she said, "Because I've been given the gift to shine a light into the dark corners of the world, and get the media to follow me there, I have to use it," and use it she did—to draw attention to a problem and in a very practical way to apply her incredible healing gifts to the victims. —Simone Simmons

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.

His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.

His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

He had just begun to realize how hard it was to get from day to day if one felt hopeless.