Quotes About Determination

Honey is tight as a coiled spring, all steel and no magnolia.

relentless, manic, with grandiose ambitions and private standards of performance. Parcells believed that even

Once he had identified the new new thing, all he needed was some really smart, passionate engineers to chase after it and make it happen.

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.

any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

working on this book has been those long

Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny

Clark knew that the time would come to put a smiley corporate face on his ferocious ambition.

On the streets of Memphis I also needed a lot of

train were harder than usual to ignore. They were

The future is hungry and unkind. It'll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.

If a door isn't there then you can't hope to go through it, but if it's there but always locked, then you're trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past; what matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered and reinforced.

A popular children's puzzle shows six fishermen whose lines are tangled together to form a sort of maze. One of the lines has caught a fish; the problem is to find which fisherman it belongs to. You are supposed to do this by following each line through the maze, which may take up to six tries, depending on your luck. It is obviously easier to start at the other end and trace the line from the fish to the fisherman, as you have only one possible starting place, not six.

You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.

I am a man possessed," he groaned, "and without this devil-blade I carry I would not be a man at all.

Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.

The cave stretches back a long way. All we can do is press on until we find its far wall," Elric said. "Let's hope that its far wall lies not downwards," Moonglum said ironically as he motioned Elric to lead on.

He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

I can think of no better way to say it—those final holes played me.

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.

But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was stilled by it, the face like a spear, wise, unforgiving.