Quotes About Determination

Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.

First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration.

But if I tried to be really good and studied very very hard, perhaps things would become different one day, I would think. Meanwhile, I must not tell anyone how bad it really was.

Fear is coursing through her, but fear is a liberation too. Fear releases power and is the precursor to action.

Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.

You just do your best, and life will follow.

If the yellow patent leather flats fit...

Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

A higher goal is always reached by overcoming fear.

It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.

There were times when I cursed the trail and the weather for hours. But after you sulk and consider your options, you eventually realize that you can sit there and cry, or you can walk... It doesn't matter so much if you cry or walk -- I did a lot of both -- but if you turn on your partner, you'll never make it together.

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Self-help is the best help.

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

It is no use being your own master unless you can stand up for yourself.

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.