Quotes About Determination

doubt is less easily dispelled than illusion, and with doubt come tentative half-measures—and nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished by tentative half-measures.

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. —Josh Billings

Someone coughed nearby, from some huddle of stones, and then spoke. 'So, who are we fighting for again?' Fiddler could not place the voice. Nor the one that replied, 'Everyone.' A long pause, and then, 'No wonder we're losing.

Beak, can you hold your own in what's to come?' A low murmuring reply: 'Yes sir. You'll see. Everyone will because you're all my friends and friends are important. The most important thing in the world. And I'll show you.

Is there anything more worthless than excuses? -Emperor Kellanved

This ain't your fight,' he said to the distant creature. 'Fucking dragon.

I see no value in modest ambitions - Karsa Orlong

If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier. Just ask the man with the hammer.

Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.

The slower your path, the muddier your boots?' 'Even so,' Icarium said, nodding. 'Time is nothing like that.' 'Are you so certain? When we must wait, our minds fill with sludge, random thoughts like so much refuse. When we are driven to action, our current is swift, the water seemingly clear, cold and sharp.

Most bravery, dear little one,' he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, 'is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.

A lot of times,, you are not going to fit in; a lot of times you are going to have to skip those parties to get to where you want to be.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

I'm really proud of 'Broken Skull Challenge.'

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

The sky is the limit for me, but in boxing you have to take it one fight at a time.

Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

I don't slack in my punches.