Quotes About Determination

Finally, I hope that this book is inspirational and teaches everyone that there is no obstacle that you cannot overcome if you have the will and love for what you do.

Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk-takers.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano

Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.

Once anybody makes up their mind to kill then there's no other problem. That's the hard part, making up your mind.

He had asked Hagen one final question. Does this man have real balls? Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

Julieta nunca lo decepcionó. Era una periodista nata y de su misma estirpe, capaz de matar a su madre por una primicia, sobre todo si era sucia y escabrosa.

But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.

Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars! Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

Freak the ferocious out.

Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

There's no human way to get to it, not even with all the dynamite in the world. So you leave it at that. And you move on.

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage... On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

As important as high aspirations and ideals are, we have to do something with them, and that takes courage. "He without an ideal is sorry indeed; he with an ideal and lacking courage to live it is sorrier still. Know that" (1402-1).

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.