Quotes About Determination

It's only when you're at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.

E perchè piace vincere, come mi piace vincere nel mio lavoro. Dimostrare che si può fare, che si può riuscire in qualcosa di utile anche quando sembra impossibile, quando le porte sembrano tutte chiuse. Accettare la sfida, misurarsi con le difficoltà.

What kind of books? Sories that make for wonder. Stories that make for laughter. Stories that stir one within with and understanding of the true natures of courage, of love, of beauty. Stories that make one tingle with high adventure, with daring, with grim determination, with the capacity of seeing danger through to the end. Stories that bring our minds to kneel in reverence; stories that show the tenderness of true mercy, the strength of loyalty, the unmawkish respect for what is good.

What kind of books? 'Stories that make for wonder. Stories that make for laughter. Stories that stir one within with and understanding of the true natures of courage, of love, of beauty. Stories that make one tingle with high adventure, with daring, with grim determination, with the capacity of seeing danger through to the end. Stories that bring our minds to kneel in reverence; stories that show the tenderness of true mercy, the strength of loyalty, the unmawkish respect for what is good.

Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.

Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.

If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.

A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and not take excuses from them. You got to put them on a spot where they can't do nothing but face the truth because they aren't going to change a bit till they decide to do it. They got to be the ones who believe they've turned into dregs and something has got to be changed.

If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist? That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

An army without faith in itself is beaten more surely than an army defeated in battle.

It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority

Nie maj?c w sobie ani cz?steczki bohatera, wzi??em nogi za pas i pobieg?em w poprzek zbocza. Okaza?o si? to m?drym posuni?ciem.

Jeste?my ofiarami w?asnej kompetencji. Zawsze wysy?a nas tam, gdzie zanosi si? na najci??sz? przepraw?. Wie, ?e poradzimy sobie jak nikt inny. Cholera i jeszcze raz cholera.

Glen Johnson

Nací para poeta o para muerto, escogí lo difícil —supervivo de todos los naufragios—, y sigo con mis versos, vivita y coleando. Nací para puta o payaso, escogí lo difícil —hacer reír a los clientes desahuciados—, y sigo con mis trucos, sacando una paloma del refajo. Nací para nada o soldado, y escogí lo difícil —no ser apenas nada en el tablado—, y sigo entre fusiles y pistolas sin mancharme las manos.

Aunque estoy entrenada y siempre resucito he decidido no morirme nunca más.

The pressure on her arm brought Etta back onto the uncomfortable wooden pew. But she didn't want to stay there, so she climbed back out the window, through the glass eyes of the seven-foot Good Shepherd, and started again the futile weaving of invisible ifs and slippery mights into an equally unattainable past.

Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.

Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too? Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. Natalie's diary has better security than this. He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

Where's Amy? Ian put in. Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!

Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. I've got a plan! That's my man! The famous grin disappeared as Jonah took in the grim determination in Dan's features. His expression was as flat and expressionless as a naked skull. Dan steered the hurtling boat directly toward the rocky shore. Amy, hang onto that painting! That's not a plan! Jonah shouted. That's suicide!

Sugar maple! Mary-Todd Holt knelt over her husband. Are you all right? Eisenhower sat up, and egg-size lump blooming on his crown. Of course I'm all right! he managed, his words slurred. You think a little insect can stop me ? Reagan was unconvinced. I don't know, Dad. She brained you with a baseball bat! Hockey stick, Dan corrected. Those could be your last words, brat–

I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.