Quotes About Determination

She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall. He really should marry her.

Just write it!

Pain is just weakness leaving your body.

Be sure that you do.

I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny

most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

I determined my significance by their perspective of me.

But inside your sob-sodden Kleenex And your Saturday night panics, Under your hair done this way and that way, Behind what looked like rebounds And the cascade of cries diminuendo, You were undeflected. You were gold-jacketed, solid silver, Nickel-tipped. Trajectory perfect As through ether.

But who is stronger than death? Me, _evidently._

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?

Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried.

In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things.

Juliana Foster

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I have often wondered if a person's life follows a path that is laid out long before he or she ever takes a first step. Or are we in control of what happens to us?

Julianne MacLean

When you want to accomplish something, you attack it, hard. So attack this. You just need to face your fear and feel like you're in control.

All I know is that I didn't want to risk sending myself into a fiery pit of despair for the rest of eternity because I wasn't strong enough to stick it out, to keep on living until my time came.