Quotes about Determination

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person.

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.