Quotes About Determination

people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several

Knowing that it is up to me what happens next. (And knowing when it is out of my hands.)

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

What a person is afraid to do, he does while possessed.

Look here, sir, what is it you really want out of life? Urb? Snorthwinger? Oplozzies? There must be some chink in your implacability!

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief

Winners win losers make excuses.

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' — they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.

The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.

I'm sick of chasing shadows. But that's where the bad guys are.

It's not always easy, but it's always possible.

If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?" Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?" "Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else." "No." I swallowed and blinked back tears. "I'd go after you," he said.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

Fear is not a choice.

I will make it if I have to crawl.

But then her stubbornness was connected to her strength, he supposed, and her strength was one of the things about her that he most admired.

There's no room at the chuck wagon for a quitter's blankets.