Quotes About Determination

I always wanted excellence. I wanted to attain it. I didn't start out with apologies. I thought: I am. I wanted to mix with the world, hands on, me and it, and I'd have courage. I wasn't born nice necessarily but nurture triumphed over nature and I wanted to be the good citizen.

If this had been any other racetrack, I would have packed my bags and left.

Walk toward the fire. Don't worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you're sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

It's about 65 degrees, so it feels like when the air conditioner is up on high. I can bear it, so I'm going for a walk. Today. Right now. In the sunshine. Because I can. Because I want to. Because I'm not going to just sit around and wait for stuff to happen anymore. I'm still me, and I have a life. It's a weird life, but it's still mine. It's still mine.

thirty-five words long, sometimes longer.

it is up to you to provide solutions, not excuses.

Don't let entropy win.

If you will the end, you must will the means.

God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

We all fail. But it is not failing that hurts. What hurts is knowing that you didn't give your best.

We got a bad start and fell behind. No

It is often spiritual laziness that, under the appearance of humility, professes to have no will, because it fears the trouble of searching out the will of God, or when found, the struggle of claiming it in faith.

Ninety years old and chatttering, chattering away as if the cure for his inability to speak Japanese were the application of more Japanese.

What plant could flower under the cold sun of Reagan?

Fuck it. I gave up smoking. and I can give up love.

But I can do it," she said, sitting down on the carpet again. "It's just that I'm heavier after breakfast.

race. She drives in close and uses her wheel spike to destroy Terencius's wheel.

Beatrix is kneeling beside him, fanning his face. 'Are you okay, Boris?' says Beatrix. 'Never felt better!' says Boris, suddenly leaping up and stretching out to his full height.

a screaming caterpillar that just screams and screams and when you ask it to stop it just keeps screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and scream—

I like a man who takes his violence seriously.

Focus can change literally everything.