Quotes About Determination

Your character builds your future

Your destiny can't be taken away no matter what happens.

1.The Way You Think,the Road You Get. 2.Patience and Passion ,Count The Fishes.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another

For the first step towards victory undoubtedly is to gain courage.

Best rear no lion in your state, 'tis true; But treat him like a lion if you do.

It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, black or white, healthy or ill. Across every cohort, controlling for all variables, if you had "a sense of purpose" you stayed healthy, and if you didn't have a sense of purpose, you didn't stay healthy. It was more powerful for your health than exercising every day. It was more important than smoking or drinking. It was pretty much the strongest determinator of your future health.

A good American goes for it, just does it, slakes it, eats it, kills it, the more the better, damn the torpedoes!

Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

When your own painful experiences inspire you to the extent that you become truly determined to break free of suffering, that is what the Buddha taught as the attitude of "renunciation.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Don't ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

you could simply imagine doing the unthinkable, and then, the next thing you knew, there you were doing it. Nothing was out of the question. Anything could happen. You had to do it your way.