Quotes about Determination

The brick walls are there for a reason. Right? The brick walls are not there to keep us out, the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.

Hate can only exist in the absence of understanding; where understanding is present, hate cannot exist. ... Very often hate is the result of a determination not to understand, and this is why hate is so dangerous: it actually resists understanding.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

'And how, who am I?  I will remember, if I can!  I'm determined to do it!'  But being determined didn't help much...

Meet up with your fears. If you’re afraid of sharks, go learn all about sharks. Get into the water with one. If you respect fear, face it straight on and act anyway. What you’ll find isn’t terror - it’s exhilaration and the moments that you never forget. - Laird Hamilton, Revolutionary Waverider

A person does not choose his fate; he only fulfills it. He is bound by his fate as long as he accepts the values that determine it.

release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come.  Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success.  Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.

The Greeks took for granted a warrior-ethic ("aristeia," the virtues, values, culture and competence of "aristoi") not just between man and nature, and one city and another, and in the competitive contests (agones) between one person or point of view and another, but most especially between the individual mind striving for illumination and the vast surrounding obscure chaos of all that we do not know or understand or, as yet, have the resources to master. Humans from the earliest days of their lives have already planted their feet on one of two paths, one leading toward self-illumination or a determination to live life knowingly, as cognoscenti or "knowers," and one leading toward the absolute minimum of effort at illumination, a default-mentality marked by the vices of ignoranti, the countless herds of the mostly oblivious and passive who are content merely to be, to drift and be driven, not to be morally or philosophically accountable for themselves.

"Keep smiling and do what makes you feel good.  Life is full of ups and downs and the measure of our character is how we handle the down times, not the ups"

The past is always present

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"Prepare, and be forewarned in time.  If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again...
Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time."

All Gave Some
Some Gave all

Hope in the future keeps us going; determination
is slowly getting us there.

"I want to be a better person." Michelle
"Better than who?" Jesse
"Better than the person I am today." Michelle
"Then you are alreday a better person." Jesse

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours.

Enthusiasm
Rules his inner world.
Determination
Rules his outer world.
Therefore
Happiness has become
His real name.

"To say you are finished is to declare your own limits...
  Ability lies in your devotion to challenge it."  -Everlutionary

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow

Our goal is not to have       
A problem-free life.     
But to conquer all the problems
As they appear     
Along our life-road.

I'm sad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

Failure 
Is not falling down.  
Failure  
Is desiring to live
Where I have fallen.

Courage and perserverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

With the determination to accomplish the highest welfare of all sentient beings, who surpass even a wish-granting jewel, I will learn to hold them supremely dear. Whenever I associate with others, I will learn to think of myself as the lowest amongst all and respectfully hold others to be supreme from the very depths of my heart. In all actions I will learn to search into my mind and as soon as a disturbing emotion arises endangering myself and others I will firmly face and avert it. I will learn to cherish ill-natured beings and those oppressed by strong misdeeds and sufferings as if I had found a precious treasure difficult to find. When others out of envy treat me badly with abuse, slander, and the like I will learn to take all loss and offer the victory to them. When the one who I have benefited with great hope hurts me very badly for no reason, I will learn to view that person as an excellent spiritual guide. In short I will learn to offer everyone without exception all help and happiness directly and indirectly and respectfully take upon myself all harm and suffering of my mothers. I will learn to keep all these practices undefiled by the stains of the eight worldly concerns and by understanding all phenomena as like illusions, be released from the bondage of attachment.

"Always give 'em the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice"

All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. And you will tell them yes.