Quotes About Determination

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

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Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.

Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

There's always the dwarf bread.

Well, I think, said Nobby, that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.

had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.

Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.

There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.

Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?

Bein' a soldier is not hard. If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it.

When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.

Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

The Post Office was the underdog, and an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite.

You made a choice, you get what you choose.

No!" Moist's fist thumped the table. "Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward!

He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

None of these lads here were out getting fighting drunk last night. And thus we wear down mountains. Water dripping on a stone, dissolving and removing. Changing the shape of the world, one drop at a time. Water dripping on a stone, Commander. Water flowing underground, bubbling up in unexpected places.

Anger helped Vimes up the last leg of the climb. Anger at himself and whoever it was who had punctured his holiday. But it was worrying: he had wanted something to happen and now it had. Somebody was dead. Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

Vimes stuck his helmet under his arm, smoothed back his hair, and knocked. He'd considered asking Sargent Colon to accompany him, but had brushed the idea aside quickly. He couldn't have tolerated the sniggering. Anyway, what was there to be afraid of? He'd stared into the jaws of death three times; four, if you included telling Vetinari to shut up.

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.