Quotes About Determination

If we must put our head into the lion's mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Cowardice can imitate heroism if given no where to flee

Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

Do try to focus." "Well, I do try. I simply fail.

I want control," she said, opening her eyes. "Not like a king or anything. I just want to be able to control it, a little. My life. I don't want to get shoved around, by people or by fate or whatever. I just ... I want it to be me who chooses.

Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.

A woman could be strong without having the emotions of a brick.

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong, for we've had to carry it all these years.

So if Cobb wanted me to turn, I'd turn. I'd turn until my fingers bled—until I rubbed the flesh from my hands and withered away to a skeleton. A skeleton who could turn really, really well.

Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)

Yelling a battle cry—more to motivate himself than frighten his foes—Lukel grabbed the table leg and swung it at a soldier. The wood bounced off the man's helmet, but the blow was powerful enough to daze him, so Lukel followed it with a solid blow to the face. The soldier dropped and Lukel grabbed his weapon. Now he had a sword. He only wished he knew how to use it.

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

Failure is refusing to fight. Failure is remaining quiet and hoping someone else will fix the problem.

You fix it, and you fly. You find a way, and you defy them. For those of us who don't have the courage.

Navani Kholin was not some timid, perfect ideal. She was a sour storm of a woman, set in her ways, stubborn as a boulder rolling down a mountain, and increasingly impatient with things she considered foolish. He loved her the most for that.

But maybe you shouldn't be looking for life to be easier because you choose to do something that is right!

What was keeping this ship together? Spit and prayers?

I don't care what it takes. I'm tired of being pretty and nice...I want to DO something.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar. Trembling, bleeding, agonized, Dalinar forced air into his lungs and spoke a single ragged sentence. "You cannot have my pain.

Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options." Sazed

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man

as he walked, he moved with more determination. If only because he knew there were things in the world he didn't understand—and that meant, perhaps, there were possibilities he didn't see. Possibilities for survival.