88 Quotes Tagged: determination

It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

"He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!" — the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved."

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow — You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out — The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit — It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Soft power is quiet persistence.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.

Be one of those rare people who just don't know how to quit.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.