determination

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours."The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.""I will never give it up," she answered.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Your life, your world.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Trust that you have everything you need right now to be successful financially. All it takes to bring out your natural, God-given gifts is your desire, determination, and a deep faith that you have a genius and a gift that is unique.

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.

Don__ fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you__e fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you__l be successful. Once you start making a __lan B_, you distract from __lan A_, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.