Quotes About Determination

Miles," said Bel's voice, seeming to come from a long way off, "if you're going to pass out, put your head down." "Between my knees," choked Miles, "and kiss my ass goodbye. Bel, do you know what that sigil is?

Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving

Lois Walfrid Johnson

Mikkel grinned. Bree made a mistake. I'll find her yet!

Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us.

I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

As she had stated earlier, he wasn't an animal. Well, he was, but there was a side of him that was more than instinct as well. There was the strategist, and soon, there would be the seducer. No battle was won purely with a show of strength, he told himself as he left her room, closing the door quietly behind him. Every battle won was done so with the right strategy as well as the proper weapons. He simply had to determine when and where to begin the first skirmish.

Lorena McCourtney

Beneath his well-trimmed goatee, Murray's mouth was flat and hard. "Bring her up to my office." And with that, he walked away to the private elevators. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Glaring at the girl, Trace asked, "Happy now?" She looked almost smug when she said, "Getting there." She gave a pointed look at his hand on her arm.

Buck up, suck it up, don't fuck it up

In that moment I realized I did know who to feel the most sorry for. The person who'd killed Levi. I'd find them. And when I did? The one shot, one kill motto of the US Army Snipers wouldn't apply.

She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing

Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.

Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job.

I'll go see her tonight,' I said. I felt I was a person of my word, and by saying something I could make it so. It was less like integrity perhaps and more like magic.

Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.

Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz