Quotes About Determination

People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published -- would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

Broken but not broken.

a matter of fact, Havel had but three weapons to use in his effort to change history: hope, courage and stubbornness – weapons which all of us possess in one measure or another. The sole difference between Václav Havel and the rest of us is that we, unlike Havel, seldom reach for those weapons; and when (if) we do, we do it with much less – weaker and shorter-lived – determination.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)

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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.