Quotes About Determination

Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full passionate intensity

John Birmingham

she was going to need to stay frosty until she could reach into his fucking chest and rip his heart out herself just to make sure the fucker was really dead.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic is mostly hard work.

In industry, you take a bump now and then, but you bounce back as long as you don't get defeated inside.

It is not strength, but desire, that governs the world.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years.

It's a great life if you don't weaken

He that is down needs fear no fall.

He that is down need fear no fall.

I fought till my sword did cleave to my hand; and then they were joined together as if a sword grew out of my arm; and when the blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage.

Who would true valor see,Let him come hither;One here will constant be,Come wind, come weather.There's no discouragementShall make him once relentHis first avow'd intentTo be a pilgrim.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the initial desire which is innate and incontrovertible.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

If you think you can do it, you can.