Quotes About Determination

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

What matters most in the end, though, is this: your belief in your capacity to create positive change and the courage to take action.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

Most people do not have the guts to direct their own movie - let alone star in it.

Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.

When I was younger, before this layoff which has nearly finished me, I hitchhiked one hundred and twenty-seven hours without stopping, without food or sleep, crossed the continent twice in six days, cooled my thumbs in both oceans and caught rides after midnight on unlighted highways, such was my skill, persuasion, rhythm. I set records and immediately cracked them; went farther, faster than any hitchhiker before or since.

Women are tough and rather coarse. They were built for the raw, crude work of bearing children. You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise.

Life is hard - if you think it's hard.

IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN'T DO IT, then fuck it, it can't be done.

In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE

Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.

How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective

the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.

if this typewriter cant do it fuck it

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?

Consapevole del fatto che non si sarebbe fatta vincere, che nessuna forza oscura, nessun potere avrebbe sconfitto la sua volontà di sopravvivere.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.