Quotes About Determination

I must concentrate all of my energies on the enfranchisement of my own sex! She had named and claimed her calling. Here is concentration of purpose. This declaration, as we shall see, unified her energy in extraordinary ways.

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995

XXIV I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. "It is futile," I said, "You can never-" "You lie" he cried And ran on.

Talent isn't enough. Determination, ambition, energy and gall are also needed, as well as the need to have one's ego serve the writing and not the reverse.

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

He's dying, is still trying to save her, because he's not going to let Jade die in these waters like his daughter did. It's what dads do. It's what they're supposed to do.

This is the part in the movie where Jade's supposed to rally, she knows. She's not supposed to mope, she's supposed to be gearing up, pouring black powder into lightbulbs, hammering nails into the business end of a bat, that kind of stuff.

Jade would never kill anyone just because. With reason, though, yeah. Twice-over, with interest, and more than a little attitude, maybe even something a little extra, for style points.

Because she's Jade fucking Daniels. And a thousand men like you can't even reach up to touch her combat boots.

Lindsay's hauling up the Titan sword, holding it up like she has the power.

Second time's charm," Burned Dan said. "Think that's third time," I told him. "You want to do this again?" he said. "Second time's charm," I repeated.

A second later, a third knife sticks into the doorframe, the two sides of its handle calving off as well, tapping into the hardwood floor one by one, like they tried to hold on, they really did, but… they're just from the dollar store, come on, this is all they could manage.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Heed the call. Take the leap. But do not go off half-cocked. Plan it out. Take that full day. Take more than one. Take as many as necessary to develop your plan. But do it, and then, execute it. You won't be sorry. You will be on your path to bliss.

Los desacuerdos se superan, no con argumentos, ni con el beneficio de la duda, ni con la esperanza de que la razón pueda prevalecer, sino con la afirmación, la animosidad y la voluntad de recurrir a la fuerza.

Yeats said, 'Men of action, when they lose all belief, believe only in action.

human evolution has been determined mainly by social competition.29

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.