Quotes About Determination

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave.

They endured. They kept humping. They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really.

A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

He found he was implicitly confident of a way out…and his face reddened when he realized that it was an axiom called up from early childhood—the conviction that if he cried hard enough and long enough, someone would take him home.

Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than

twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning — that was

For the first time in my life I know what I want and I have what it takes to get me there. If you never experienced that I feel sorry for you. But it wasn't always like this. I have been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn't barely credit. So be happy for me. And for fucksake don't get in my way.

You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.

He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Concentration, focus, long-term thinking—those are the qualities that separate a warrior from a mere flailing fighter.

He risked a glance at the aft-vision display. The other fighter was coming up fast, with no more than a minute or two separating the two ships. Obviously, the pilot had far more experience with the craft than Luke had. That, or else such a fierce determination to recapture Luke that it completely overrode normal commonsense caution. Either way, it meant Mara Jade.

But we will succeed. I've seen the future, Jorj. We will succeed, because we have no other choice. -Thrawn

Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

The odds are never impossible," Thrawn said calmly. "Merely unfavorable.

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

Because it's easier? Samakro growled. This is the Expansionary Defense Fleet, Caregiver. We don't do things just because they're easier. We do things because they work.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.

It isn't my job to win . . . my job is simply to take the stand I think right, no matter how unpopular or hopeless or even ridiculous the cause looks, and to have the courage to act on my beliefs. No matter what the consequences turn out to be.

And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all.

There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified, faced, and vanquished.

If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.