Quotes About Determination

Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall!

He took one long slow breath: crossed right hand over left upon his breast: became like a piece of a pageant; and responded "I will."

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Success flourishes only in perseverance — ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.

Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.

A small insect, clearly suffering from acute depression, decided that my open mouth was the ideal route for a suicide mission. With kamikaze-like determination, it rocketed down my throat and splattered against my tonsils. - Calma Harrison

No the world's too crazy, it might never come true But before I give up I'm gonna fight for you My heart beats fast and my face is all flushed Darn I'd marry you tomorrow, I don't wanna seemed rushed.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control. Yeah, that's what you do. Take control. So, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And if it's locked, I'll knock it the hell down." He thinks when he busts out "hell" I take him more seriously. Yeah. Insert eye roll here.

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

You know the expression 'As a crow flies,' don't you? People use it to mean a straight line. And that's very important. Because the way a capital-c Crow flies is a straight line. It may appear jagged to some, but the Crow flies in a straight line to its goal.

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

I think, "I can do this. I think I can do this. I think I can make it through the summer. One last summer. That's not so bad, right?" In bed, the voice says nothing, but its silence tells me everything.

fail fast and move on

This is where. This is where it will happen. This is where I will do it. When the time comes. I've fired a gun once in my life. I'll do it again. When the time comes.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb. None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, "So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far." Edison replied with confidence, "Really? Haven't we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?