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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. (Mario Andretti)
My determination becomes colder to grab this twitching, living monster, and lock it away in crystal-clear, sharp lines and planes, to quell it and strangle it. I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Max Beckmann)
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. (Ambrose Bierce)
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good. (Thomas Browne)
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! (Emily Carr)
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for
people to stop you. (Bill Cosby)
Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. (E. Joseph Cossman)
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. (Walt Disney)
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
Decide what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. (George Eliot)
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If necessary, I would even paint with my bottom. (Jean-Honore Fragonard)
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end. (Paul Gauguin)
Paint until you feel physical strain - take a break and then paint some more. (Irwin Greenberg)
Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... (Robert H. Lauer)
When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. (Edouard Manet)
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. (Peter Marshall)
My art...… consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated. (Samurai Master)
It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again. (Claude Monet)
When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose. (Steven Pressfield)
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow. (Kiki Smith)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau)
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. (Mark Twain)
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. (Denis Waitley)
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