Quotes About Determination

not complaining. I don't want to wreck

Stop starting. Start finishing.

I had seen of Gus and the astronauts indicated that they had the "right stuff.

Life is what you make up of it.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880: It is no use relying on the Government . . . . You must only rely upon your own determination . . . . Help yourselves by standing together . . . strengthen those amongst yourselves who are weak . . . , band yourselves together, organize yourselves . . . and you must win . . . When you have made this question ripe for settlement,then and not till then will it be settled.

hefted the pickaxe and attacked the three-inch-thick layer of gray-white ice. Frozen chips and droplets of water speckled his face as he swung the chopping tool. He pushed and scooted the bigger chunks to the edge of the trough with the pickaxe, then gritted his

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Nothin' bucks like a bull . . . rider.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Everything Is a dream until you decide to make it real

You may take it as you wish, Irene said. But I am not giving you my mission, and I am not giving you my student, and if I were the sort of person who kept pet rats, I would not give you my rat. Clear?

It goes a bit like this," Irene said, as they walked towards the stairs. "The first step is, I'll kill myself before I let him do that to me again. The second step is to say, Wait, it'd be much more practical to kill him rather than kill myself. And there you have it. A sensible plan based on logical choices.

I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.

I plan for the worst," Silver said. "That way, at least I'm dressed for the occasion.

Strong-minded women with a cause accepted even fewer excuses than the average gangster, when it came to getting what they wanted, and what they wanted right now was Irene making a speech.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved," Irene retorted. "If I were going on a heroic quest, I'd probably start off by making a list of things I'd need on the journey. Including some books to read during the dull bits.

Genevieve Cogman

The differences we have in life won't determine the results we shall have in death.

Gennifer Choldenko

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.