Quotes About Determination

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

The first time I applied to be an astronaut, NASA turned me down. I was not a test pilot, they said, and at that time, NASA wanted only test pilots. Other people, no matter how bright or talented, need not apply. Sure, I was disappointed, but I was determined and I knew the sky was not the limit, so I applied again.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

Damn my eyes. Damn my soul. Glorious!

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

You will never achieve or succeed in life higher than your attitude.

I was young and angry enough not to feel that, though this wasn't courage: young and angry is not the same as brave.

What you guys don't understand about women is a lot. Smart women, they get bored easy. This one here, she's so much better than the rest, she has to manufacture her own challenge. If she didn't come from behind, she'd fall asleep on her own goddamn feet." Greeney

He can't keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around." Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that?

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

It was then that it dawned on me: I must take the responsibility, it is up to me how my fate turns out. I had been confronted with a problem to which I had to find the answer. And who posed the problem? Nobody ever answered me that. I knew that I had to find the answer out of my deepest self, that I was alone before God, and that God alone asked me these terrible things. From

Although it is true that everyone orients himself in accordance with the data supplied by the outside world, we see every day that the data in themselves are only relatively decisive...One man resigns himself to circumstances because experience has shown him that nothing else is possible, another is convinced that though things have gone the same way a thousand times before, the thousand and first time will be different.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age." Roald Amundsen

I'll tell anyone who will listen," he said softly. "What I can't figure out is why everybody doesn't do it. Look for the best, I mean. It's easy, and it makes life go easier.

Carnegie structure.

and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,

You like to fly under the radar," Romanowski said, locking eyes again with Joe. "When you see something that's wrong, you don't give up. You value being underestimated. In fact, you encourage it. Then, if you have to, you turn fucking cowboy and surprise everyone.

She swallowed the last of her cup of decaf and leaned forward to her laptop and keyed in the passwords for ViCAP—one for the department, one for her personally—and followed the prompts and she was in.

So like Miriam to look for the easy way.