Quotes about Determination

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't hear the word 'no' - I hear 'find another way to get what you want.'

My father, once he has decided on something, doesn't care about what anyone else thinks. All the men in our family swore at him for training us. His parents said he was mad. But he didn't listen.

I started playing basketball so late, it just means that anything is possible.

Fifth Rule. The fifth: In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly.

We keep walking the right direction in spite of not being able to see the path.

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And