Quotes About Determination

Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.

As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you're

Stephen thought that if he could do everything with the intensity and abandonment with which he had once helped Kate build her castle, he would be a happy man of extraordinary powers.

THE MARINES ENDURED.

But he did not lack the ruthlessness required of all military commanders in wartime.

The stricken vessel started getting deeper in the water, slowly going down, as if she too were reluctant to give up the battle. With her colors proudly flying and the last signal flags, reading 'I am abandoning ship,' still waving at the yardarm, she went under on an even keel, like the lady she always was.

These young pilots acted as if they were playing football," Admiral Halsey later said. "They'd fight like the devil, then take a short time-out, and get back into the fight again.

He would not be deterred by subtle arguments of strategy and tactics—he would simply throw everything he had at the enemy and slug it out until the issue was decided.

Rochefort would put up with any method or style so long as it got results.

they realized that a man like this was somebody you could storm hell itself with.

They watched the sun make its orbit around him. They watched the shadows growing shorter, then longer. The first day passed as though no one saw what he saw. On the second day, they began whispering among themselves. On the third day, they came rushing toward him from all directions. On the fourth day, he said to them, "All you can do is take Hamama out of this blazing heat." He was determined to maintain his vigil in the same place until the end.

You know anything about investigative work? Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

You will not pass!" Roman thundered. Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. I win.

Put your badass faces on and follow me.

Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day? His eyes flared yellow Is that a challenge? Yes it is.

And then what? I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

No, you're not going with him." I crossed my arms. "Who decided that?" He put on his "I'm alpha and I'm putting my foot down" expression. "I decided.

Need some help, Ass Kicker?

Your headlights don't scare me.

Would you like to work here with me? We have no clients and the pay is shit.

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

We should clap or something. Curran said. She's trying so hard.