Quotes About Determination

If I could stand in an open airplane doorway two-and-a-half miles above the ground and will myself to step into empty space, then I could do anything.

You can do what you want to do.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

David A. Adler

Brave hea-" The Doctor sighed. "Chin up.

Journeys are regularly marked by an early exhilaration followed by a waning resolve to finish.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

When those responsible for its security decide that something needs to be done, they're going to do it—without any discussion and in spite of any moral opposition.

Won't get done by looking at it!

I stand and I do not fall!" he shouted. "I stand and I do not fall!

Nothing is indestructible. Anyone who believes otherwise is already halfway to being defeated.

The ramparts were infinite. So was his will.

It's a mass agitation of ambitious cocks!

David Anthony Durham

Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

Sam wanted to stop cutting off heads, and find the creature's heart, but there was almost no evidence as to where that heart might be. They knew there was something big behind the drug operations in the city, but it was so well organized and so carefully designed that no one seemed to have any idea where or how to find it.

David Archer

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

and see what new horrors he'd have to deal with. The past four months he'd been on loan to the DEA, and they'd made some big drug busts, shut down some of the most evil purveyors of sin and death that ever lived, but they were like the mythical hydra—as soon as you cut off one of its heads, three more grew back to take its place. Sam wanted to stop cutting off heads and

You were chosen, Noah, because you've proven that you will take action when action must be taken. You don't agonize over it, you simply decide whether action needs to be taken, and then you act on that decision.

Okay, he told himself, enough Memory Lane crap. Let's get back to