Sheer Determination Quotes

#1. Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

Barbara Michaels

#2. The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

Phil Klay

#3. A part of her, the female, horny part she generally tried to ignore, sat up and took notice when he smiled, the shameless hussy.

Lexi George

#4. So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

John Ratzenberger

#5. She is not the child that mirrors me, and yet when you put us side by side, there are definite similarities. It's not in the shape of the mouth but the set of it, the sheer determination that silvers our eyes.

Jodi Picoult

#6. If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Fred Saberhagen

#7. What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

Lisa Ann Sandell

#8. The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.

Bob Weinstein

#9. Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.

Jakob Nielsen

#10. Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

William Blake

#12. At what point do we just re-create the people who have disappeared from our lives?

Sherman Alexie

#13. You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. Going against the current requires sheer determination.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

John Lydgate

#17. Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

Ken Robinson