Quotes about Determination

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit...

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

They had become an occasional mutter, like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle's eye; a soft moan when she sees another chip in her one good platter; the low friendly argument with which she greets the hens.

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph were forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be

Don't wait until you become a big shot to do big-shot

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One