Quotes About Determination

Nothing worth having comes easy.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. (reebok,chiat/day.)Just do it. (Nike, Weiden and Kennedy.)Dammit something just isn't right. (Me, to my bathroom mirror at four thirty in the morning when I'm plastered.)

There are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored.

If you spend twenty years trying to get something and you still don't have it, is it admirable to keep trying? Or did you pass admirable several miles back and it's getting close to straitjacket time? If you are no closer to having something you've been chasing for twenty years, your data is broken. Either you can't get it, period; you already have it; you don't really need or want it; or it's not real.

The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If

I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open.

She reminded me of a scatterbrained old Cadillac that had been driven into the ground but somehow kept on starting, without fuss.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.

It doesn't matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered...

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain?

Who is John Galt?

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are. - John Gault

I am. I think. I will.

I think. I am. I will.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

There can be no compromise on moral principles.