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Quotes About Determination

never say never
~ Gary Paulsen
I am full of tough hope
~ Gary Paulsen
kep on trying
~ Gary Paulsen
There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution.
~ Gary Paulsen
I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.
~ Gary Paulsen
A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.
~ Gary Paulsen
Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He
~ Gary Paulsen
Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries.
~ Gary Paulsen
You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.
~ Gary Paulsen
being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.
~ Gary Paulsen
There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe. All simple things. All fixable things.
~ Gary Paulsen
Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die...
~ Gary Paulsen
He had not slept the night before except to doze kneeling next to Derek, and he had worked hard all day on the raft getting it ready, and when the sun went down and the darkness caught him he could not believe how much he wanted to sleep.
~ Gary Paulsen
Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come.
~ Gary Paulsen
which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.
~ Gary Paulsen
Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.
~ Gary Ryan Blair
Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.
~ Gary Shteyngart
with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students
~ Gary Shteyngart
She never backed down. A fighter to the very last. This is how a human being is forged after an unhappy early life. This is the independence of growing up, of standing up for yourself, even if against a phantom enemy.
~ Gary Shteyngart
There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want , sunshine or some prized tuber.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I think she's trying. Trying what? She's trying to figure it out. Aren't we all? No, I don't think so.
~ Gary Shteyngart
If I don't save her from the hands of that humbug, he said, aloud, as he went to bed, she is lost. But I shall save her. He put out his lamp and felt a need to insult Erik in the dark. Thrice over, he shouted: Humbug!...Humbug!...Humbug!
~ Gaston Leroux
Uno se acostumbra a todo cuando se quiere… cuando se tiene buena voluntad…
~ Gaston Leroux
You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.
~ Gene Kranz