Quotes About Determination

roll the dice if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't get into it. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, alcoholism, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation.

there are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.

there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.     6

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

I was tired and wet and hungover, but I was usually that way and I waded through the weariness like I did the water.

the history of a tough motherfucker he

If you're going to try, go all the way.

You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it 'hustling.' I'd like to be a good hustler.

I was laying in bed one night and I thought, 'I'll just quit. To hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit. Save that tiny little ember of spark. And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

Por muy pequeño que sea un hombre, siempre descubrirá que puede serlo más.

the generals and the doctors may kill us but we have won.

My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.

knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.

you didn't adjust, you simply got more and more tired

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Kad sam se našao vani, odlu?no sam krenuo kroz smog. O?i su mi bile plave, cipele stare i nitko me nije volio. Ali me ?ekalo puno posla.

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

Public hates what they call a quitter

ama yüklediÄŸin donmuÅŸ bal?k, o düÅŸünce, güzel ve rahatlat?c?d?r, ve yine gidecek kancay? tahtaya saplay?p o kasalar? yine çekeceksindir. hava karar?r farlar?n? yakard?n ve dünya yeterince iyiydi o anda.

Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.