Quotes About Determination

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley…

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

The Angels don't like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. "Yeah, I guess I am," said one. "But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself.

It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

Yeah, I guess I am," said one. "But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania

about to quit." "Why?" He laughed. "Everybody quits—you'll quit. Nobody worth a shit can work here.

And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you've ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don't see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect — between the two things I've mentioned: the floating or the swimming.

Unless I weaken—and I might—I think I'll be sure I can fly before I return to the nest. It should be interesting Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if nothing else.

No! ¿Cuántas veces te he dicho que no des tu brazo a torcer? Lo más importante para ganar una discusión es no vacilar, aunque tengas dudas y mucho menos si estás equivocada.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Just because your choice is predetermined does not mean you do not have a free choice before you take it (516)

The magic of Paul's intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I've ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul's gift: an intuition of just how much a person can do slowly.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

And now that you have seen a really evil man, you will know how evil they can be and you will go after them to destroy them in order to protect yourself and the people you love. You won't wait to argue about it. You know what they look like now and what they can do to people.

Well, if he had to die anyway, he might as well try it the hard way.

I'm a slow learner. It's true. But I learn , I can't deny it.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world" Ã¢â'¬â€œ but only if the desire to move the world is there.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.

I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame.