Quotes About Determination

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road." Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

They said that we would be down and out on heroin. The success was a fuck you. There's a lot of fuck you-ness about me – my basic fuck you-ness has survived.

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

People have said to me, 'Well, if you ran you might get more speaking appearances, and you could sell another book.' Frankly, that's the last thing on my mind. If I get in, I'll get in to win.

we want to get our dreams, we need to sacrifice everything that we have in order to reach it.

Any intentional state only functions, that is, it only determines conditions of satisfaction, against a set of Background abilities, dispositions, and capacities that are not part of the intentional content and could not be included as part of the content.

If Fastnet 79 teaches us anything universal, it is that the best storm tactic often is unrelenting human resourcefulness, courage, and spirit.

The way you state your problem frames your decision. It determines the alternatives you consider and the way you evaluate them. Posing the right problem drives everything else.

She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act. The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

To clench one's teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task—that is discipline.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge

My men, yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people—we go on.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if 'Thou mayest'—it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying — and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.

Despite their age difference-Pope Julius was sixty; Michelangelo, thirty-and their similarily contentious temperaments, neither man could believe that anything he passionately wanted would be denied him.

It was the nose of a champion still, and wind and dark and snow could not prevail against it – there was a grouse in the brush heap.

He's a flyin' mchine, with a telescope nose. You got a grand dog, Mr. Gregory, a grand dog. A gamer dog never lived – he'll try all the way; but this here dog that old fool's go a hold of somehow aint't human. In three hours he'll find all the quail in the state!