Quotes about Determination

It's true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story.

A story starts with a hero who wants something. And then the question becomes: Will the hero get what she wants?

A story doesn't really pick up until the hero needs to disarm a bomb, win someone's heart, defeat a villain, or fight for their emotional or physical survival.

After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

Nothing is easy. But who wants nothing?

Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

When you do something you love with passion and perseverance, you are already a success. Even if you never hit the big time, who cares?

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.