Quotes About Determination

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

A bad driving and not even trying!

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Back out,' he suggested after a moment. 'Put her in reverse.' 'But the WHEEL'S off!' He hesitated. 'No harm in trying,' he said.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

Sweetness is hard. Real sweetness is a sort of hardness—and strength. ~Lois

He felt that to succeed here the idea of success must grasp and limit his mind.

What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'But that is all.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see.

I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see.

My life, my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.

beating back the tide

It was good to be hard, then; all nice people were hard on themselves.

you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that

it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.