Quotes About Determination

ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed.

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

Just don't let go or you may drown.

The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.

There would be better years. It would take a long time to swim toward them. He wasn't sure, at first, that he had the energy. The breakthrough was realizing that there would be days when he did and days when he didn't, days to avoid the water at all costs and days to dive in, bold.

Jonathan Little

Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

I got this," said Nix, raising her bokken.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Maybe you should go make that call again. Ask very specifically how much of who's ass needs to be kissed here. I'm pretty sure it's my hairy butt that's gonna be getting all the love.

There's an old military saying...If at first you don't succeed, call in an air strike.

watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.

I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in. I don't believe in rules and I don't believe in fair fights. You want a fair fight, join a boxing club. I also don't believe in dying for my country. I have a kind of General Patton take on that: I think the other guy should die for his.

I need sonsabitches that can hit hard, hit fast, and hit last .

if you don't shut your mouth and work with us, then by the Lord Jesus, when we roll out of here in those buses I will personally tie you to the front grill, cover you with A1 sauce, and use you for bait. Look me in the eye and ask me if I'm joking.

I was raised to fight to the end. You never give up, no matter how much it hurts, no matter what stands in your way.

He hefted it and winced. "Shit, this thing is heavy." "Thirteen pounds fully loaded," she said. "Don't be a pussy." "I have a bad back." "Really? I thought maybe you had menstrual cramps.

Don't split. Sticking it out can mean the difference between a rough time and an utter failure.

Hope cannot be killed. Not while there is someone who will fight for it. And there always will be; always must be, someone who fights for hope.

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Looking back in 1964, King observed, "Negroes have straightened their backs in Albany. And once a man straightens his back you can't ride him anymore.

That gal's got gumption, don't she?" Dobro marveled. "That gal's got what it takes.

looked him in the eye. He said, 'I ain't a hard man, Mr. Bear, but I ain't gonna

But where there is no fear, there can be no courage.