Quotes About Determination

Look at me closely. Ask yourself: Do I look scared?

Think this through," Evan said. "Do I seem like a guy who doesn't know what he's doing?

The skinny kid from Detroit's

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only with hard work and extreme fortitude could one escape the road map created by where they are born, whom they are born to.

somewhat sad mill city north of Seattle that seemed always on a futile hunt for a lasting jolt of optimism.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

The next morning, Shane, swollen and battered, renewed his vow to run away. He told Nikki that if she didn't go with him, he'd go on his own. He'd had enough.

handful. You can't expect

So it is, I believe, in every area of our lives. The more we choose something, the harder it is to choose otherwise, until we finally are solidified—eternalized—in our decision. The momentum of our character becomes unstoppable.

If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running.

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie.

Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.

A strong man can make his own luck.

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

with the words, but hearing them in

It is a no that means maybe, and the more passionate the no, the more definite the maybe.

and in minutes we were in blackness again, with nothing but faith and fear and the will to survive.

Her hair was awry, and her amber eyes blazed with rage and determination.

it's better to die fighting than to die like a rat in a trap.