Quotes About Determination

So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Arthur Hailey

At each step biochemical triggers and feedbacks determine which of the alternative developmental pathways among several possibles a group of cells will actually follow.

This 'ruthless' determination of morphogenetic fields to assert their individuality reflects, in our terminology, the self-assertive principle in development.

He who becomes dizzy is lost.

Courage is to never let your actions be influenced by your fears.

History knows no vacillating and no consideration for feelings. It flows, powerfully and unerringly, toward its goal. On every bend it deposits debris and sludge and the bodies of the drowned. But—it knows its course. History doesn't make mistakes.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.

HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-- to come out number-one man.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.

You want to live? You better figure out your life.

Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

though our hearts break, we cannot flinch...

She catches a weakening in herself and downs it. She will not let herself be drowned in the sea that threatens her.

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back--that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.

I'm one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes anymore and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!

Elizabeth, with great fear: I will fear nothing.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what

John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!

Willy: I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he? Ben: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. where is it? Willy [hesitantly]: That's true, Linda, there's nothing.

More Weight. Giles Corey

Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard.