Quotes About Determination

But what are we going to do with a load of guns?" asks Pete. "I don't know, Brains, what are we going to do with a half-track full of guns?" Pinky asks. Brains chuckles. "Same thing we do every night, Pinky—" "Fort up and wait for reinforcements," Pinky says flatly.

Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way—

It's amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

Ah, the warm fuzzies of decisive action.

Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That's right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind of thing do you think I'd bother with you?" Her question takes him by surprise, rattling his introspective daze.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.

Courage will keep her safer than fear.

took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound .

the title of this chapter, "Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma.

Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8

and I was prepared to say blow off if you don't like this idea

remind us where our strength comes

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

I didn't come here to make friends.

The great thing about rejection is that it doesn't matter how many times you get rejected. All that needs to happen is if for one person to tell you 'yes' and then everybody else can go f*** themselves.

I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true calling would be representing New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and if that didn't work out, I could always fall back on becoming an Olympic pole vaulter.

If I were a believer in the theory of "rock bottom," this could very well have been it. As it stands, I am not a believer. Rock bottom is for sissies; I've hit rock bottom dozens of times. I've woken up next to a billy goat, for Christ's sake. You don't just give up!

She sang. Loudly. Cheerfully. Defiantly. The sun will come up, to-mor-row... If the man battling the elements heard her, he gave no indication. She finished the songs she knew from Annie , then started on Phantom of the Opera. Tally sang to keep the fear tamped down. She sang to defy the storm. She sang to make sure God knew where she was since she couldn't think of an appropriate prayer. And she sincerely hoped He liked show tunes.

extricating herself from tricky situations unscathed. She'd never met a lock she couldn't pick or a tight spot she couldn't wiggle out of. Be that actual or verbal. But she'd hit her first wall. And it scared the bejesus out of her how helpless she was right now.

Chet Cunningham

in the darkness, but

Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.