Quotes About Determination

Intention without discipline is useless.

And why not—whatever despair we may feel concerning resurrection and reassemblage—find comic relief in the human determination to assert wholeness in the face of inevitable decay and fragmentation?

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter.

It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.

He did not want to go to his grave knowing he had risked nothing for the woman he wanted. He wasn't an ass, though. Or if he was, he did not wish to give her incontrovertible evidence of the fact. What to say to her, then, when he knew he was likely to speak too gruffly?

You are walking to Hope Springs?" "Yes, Your Grace." "In this weather?" She glanced around and gave him a smile. "I haven't any other weather to walk in.

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.

Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

But what happened the next morning, what will happen every morning for the rest of my life, that's up to me. I think people can choose to be victims or they can choose to be empowered and to carry on. That's what I want. To be empowered.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

sat on a broken-down

She knew only that she felt better doing something instead of sitting back, a helpless David facing down an indifferent Goliath.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

I read an article in a women's magazine about "writing purple prose for love and money." They made it sound easy, so I started writing on an old electronic typewriter that alternated between stuck keys and high throttle. I had no clue my first letter to Harlequin came back marked "Return to Sender." Luckily, I made my first sale before I understood how long the odds were.

I learned that "I can't" usually means "I won't," and that "I won't" usually means "I'm scared to.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

Now this is a delusion, but it's my delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.