Quotes About Determination

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

she had control of her emotions, and no matter what he said or did to her, she chose whether or not she would be happy.

There's no such thing as ready," she says. "There's only willing.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

and I immediately felt guilty, while at the same time determined not to have something stolen from me... these two feelings, always coming in a pair...

why I did things I didn't want to do and couldn't do what I wanted.

The problem is, they said, he has no fear. But it seems to me that exactly the reverse is true: he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it should happen of its own accord.

What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.

I don't think you know what you want." "Yes. I do. I want you, and being with you feels a hell of a lot better than being without you. I'm not going to fight it anymore.

Možete neÅ¡to željeti, gospodo Duffy, ali to ne znaci da cete to i dobiti. NeÅ¡to silno željeti nekada jednostavno nije dovoljno.«

Sjedite li cijeli dan i smiÅ¡ljate na ? ine kako biti naporanili vam je to prirodni refleks? Kao disanje.«

Always I hev my fists and my war pipes!

Voters see I'm a fighter.

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. 'The Daily News' endorsed me. I was in 'The New York Times' above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.

Struggling to take care of my daughter on my own, I needed whatever government assistance I qualified for - a few hundred bucks a month in food stamps, free school lunches, childcare vouchers and coupons for milk and cheese - while I simultaneously worked as a maid, juggling 10 clients between going to class to put myself through college.

'The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do.

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.