“Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.” 

― Lora Leigh, Broken Wings

“Having a Vision is not enough. It must be combined with imagination, determination, faith, hope and passion. It is not enough to just stare up at the stars...we must become the stars that the stars shine down on.” 

― Victoria June

“Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.” 

― Paul Graham

“But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.” 

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.” 

― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.” 

― Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” 

― Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes

“If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup” 

― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.” 

― Michael Crichton, Next