Determination Quotes - Page 2

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Honoré de Balzac

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

A man's measure is his will.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Seven times up, eight times down

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print.

Andrew James Pritchard

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

He came back full of life and hope and determination.

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

Rebecca Donovan

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.

Moveena Rasheed

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

Georgette Heyer

Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.

You can be anything, you want to be in this life.

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If there’s any girl in the world more determined than you, I’ve yet to meet her.

Chloe Gadsby-Jones

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

Melika Dannese Lux

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!

The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip’s sake, if for no other reason.

Andrew James Pritchard

Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.Mac orders, “Deb, stop!”Deb says, “It’s just a scratch. I’ll worry about it later.

I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Ken Scott

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

A shadow passes over her face, but she shakes it off fast as she leans forward, her bright-blue hair swinging over her shoulder and clashing with her pumpkin-orange shirt. “You think you’re the only one who wants to bring back someone they love? Everyone loses someone. It’s inevitable. Everyone thinks they’re willing to give up everything to get that person back. There aren’t many who are actually capable of it.”My breath catches in my throat as my brain processes her words. Nowhere in that speech did she say what I wanted was impossible. She just said most people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice.“I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.

In the face of adversity, beautiful things emerge

You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

S.R. Ford

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(...)if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.#Page no.134

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

Richelle E. Goodrich

You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him.""I know," said Renn without turning her head.To herself she added, But I've still got to try.

Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

To Succeed You Must Read

Making a decision takes a moment, living a decision takes a life-time.

Sherif A. El-Mawardy

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]"I will find them," Reyna said.

...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.

She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.

Amy Bloom

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

Tim Fargo

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

W Somerset Maugham

We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about “who we are” in Christ and that God is in control.

Michael Barbarulo

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.

Susan Fraser King

I only need 1 thing: Everything" - Sengoku Nadeko

NisiOisiN

I will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

You may not have the greenest yard, but you can take the shit you're given and fertilize your grass into something beautiful!

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.

Jo Nesbø

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