Quotes About Determination

Having made what you know to be the correct decision, NEVER EVER question that decision.

I know that heroin will do absolutely nothing for me and that I neither need nor want it, and I don't have to keep telling myself that.

The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can.

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

that blue flame burnning? Industry!

Personally I had the feeling as if I had fallen into an ocean of boiling water, and not knowing how to swim or get out in another manner, I tried with my legs and arms as best I could. I did not know what saved me; why I was not drowned or cooked alive. I have perhaps only one merit: I never gave up. But how could I give up in the middle of an ocean? ARNOLD SCHOENBERG IN 1947

Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it. Dad

He wanted to break her? She couldn't be broken. She wouldn't ALLOW herself to be broken.

Some things were worth fighting for, but sometimes the fight was internal.

Hit it back over the net, as the teachers use to say when getting us ready for school debates. The harder the shot coming toward you, the more power in your return.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out.- zach

Are you the man that says nothing or the man that acts upon his beliefs?

If you read fairy-tales carefully, you'll notice they are mostly about people who aren't heroes. They don't have special powers, or gifts. Often they are despised as stupid. They are bullied, beaten up, robbed, starved. But they find they are stronger than their misfortunes.

Was it too late? Could he still gather strength, just throw himself at something, if only to feel that velocity again? What was there to lose, when you gave up on figuring it out…or worse, when you saw that there was no figuring it out?

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Part of thinking for oneself is learning to recognize obstacles when they present themselves, and understanding that one must confront those obstacles, not merely ignore them in the mistaken hope that they will disappear.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Runners don't quit. We fade; we hit the wall; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.

At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive as a lover, had tried to prise the pieces of him apart. Only when she failed had she finally let go, by then months had passed. She loved like she was going to war, but she was also not the kind of woman to wait for a man. Valiant in battle, noble in defeat. She walked away and never looked back