Quotes About Determination

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

Slow and steady wins the race! From The Tortoise and the Hare.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities.

În aceast? lume, respectul de sine depinde integral de ceea ce ne mân? de la spate s? fm sau s? facem.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Asked where his inspiration came from, he said fiercely: 'It doesn't come, Your Majesty. You have to go out and fetch it.

Kyetäkseen kirjoittamaan ihmisen on oltava sitkeä.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up.

He had the look, it seemed to me, of a man who had awakened one day to find himself clinging to the cattle catcher of an express train: under the circumstances, all one could do was to hang on.

Beyond the light was that distant line of horizon she had glimpsed from on high—a line like a solitary prison bar, needing no intersection with other bars to keep her jailed. And she decided then and there that she would not stay here and be mocked; she would not.

Her depression had given way to a characteristic determination. "I may never leave Kalaupapa," she told Kenji, "but a part of me is damn well getting out of here." Her husband agreed. Once he'd aspired to make his mark on the world. "This," he admitted, "is the only way I ever will.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead

If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes

The vision you use determines the results you obtain.

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn't looking.

That weapon—is mine." Finn all but snarled his reply. "Come and get it.