Quotes About Determination

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

Hard tasks need hard ways.

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...

We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

We will not run, Paul said. We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.

Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.

Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

No conoceré el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo.

If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that"—Bickel snapped his fingers—"and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?

Go right to the depth of their uncertainty, dispose of that, and all the rest must follow.

She looked as though a breeze would blow her away, yet there was that about her which suggested she might stand untouched in the path of a coriolis storm.

Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

When you stumble," he said, "you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.

It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.

the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Arrakis has it's own way determining who wears the mantle of authority,' Kynes said.