Quotes About Determination

Your job is obviously very pressured." "I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Well. Ever since my mother told me, when I was about eight. You thrive under pressure, Samantha. Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.

I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!

is tall and rangy, with muscled thighs that start three inches apart. She looks like she probably runs up a mountain every day and doesn't even know what a KitKat is.

If you listened to every pang, you wouldn't get anywhere in life

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. maybe not the easy thing-but the right thing.

My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards—but I am a queen!

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

Brave hearts do not back down they back off.

For the love of god, Oedipus, tell me too, what is it? Why this rage? You're so unbending.

all done with a will. The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

tell them I'll do everything. God help us, we will see our triumph—or our fall.

Women are warlike too.

Enter OEDIPUS, blinded, led by a boy.

Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.

PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

También yo he sentido la inclinación a obligarme, casi de una manera demoníaca, a ser más fuerte de lo que en realidad soy.

You speak what you believe, and you believe you're doomed. If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

Whatever inspires you fires you.