Quotes About Determination

She reminded us of the possibilities we have not the courage to strive for. We are too afraid of failure.

He was afraid of the ultimate failure of being a coward. And that was something he could control. It might cost him everything he had, but it was still within his power to do it. It was within him, not beyond.

The crossing sweeper, a boy of about eight or nine years, was still busily pushing manure out of the way to make a clean path for any pedestrian who wished to reach the other side. He seemed to be one of those cheerful souls willing to make the best out of any situation. His skimpy trousers stuck to his legs, his coat was too long for him and gaped around the neck, but his enormous cap seemed to keep most of the rain off his head, except for

worked night and day to prove his innocence." "Indeed, Mr. Pitt knows it most of all," Grisewood said with a wide smile. "The prosecution rests, my lord.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

Only the impossible can do the impossible.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

They know how bad they are. They don't care. They do what they do because...because they love it.

must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on.

Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.' 

Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?

I wanted to go. It seemed in the depths of my bruised soul I wanted nothing more. But something again held me.

there was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

I don't really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero—that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.

Now a life like that, he figured, could make one tentative and fearful perhaps. Or it could make you remarkably strong, and what people called philosophical---and fiercely independent. Maybe it could make you careless of your own life, indifferent to danger, and determined to live exactly as you pleased.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I

my motto, what it's always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won't be bad at being bad. I

One can kill the gifts one is given, any of them and all of them, if one is determined to do so, and pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Son tu conciencia y tu voluntad las que deben mantenerte vivo.

I'd demeaned and insulted those who didn't know how to be happy. Yes, I was determined to be happy. And I fought furiously for ways to be happy.

You have to suffer through the emptiness and find what compels you to continue.

I have named them the hounds of Sisyphus.

This is a young one, an innocent one, and I'll make the decision as to whether he survives or not.