Quotes About Determination

Real women didn't wait for their dragon slayers to come save them.

Lane shut the door on the man's face, grabbed a pair of boxers from the bureau, and yanked them on so hard, he nearly wedgie'd himself. Try not to kill him, Lizzie muttered as he headed back for the idiot. I make no promises.

When Butch returned, Wrath heaved again. "Two more." There was another grunt and a rattle. "Fuck me." "Not on your life." "Fine. Fuck you.

La verdad esencial de la vida, tal como John estaba empezando a entrever, no era nada idealista, y se podía resumir en pocas palabras: siempre pasan cosas malas, mierdas, mierdas y más mierdas. Y pese a ello siempre sigues adelante. Mantienes a tus amigos, a tu familia y a tu amor con la mayor seguridad posible. Y cuando te derriban, te levantas y sigues luchando. Luchas incluso cuando ya no te queda esperanza en la victoria. Maldición, es verdad, no te rindes jamás.

Si alguien se atreve a hacerte daño alguna vez —declaró Qhuinn en Lengua Antigua—, prometo perseguirlo hasta verlo atado a una estaca ante mí y dejar su cuerpo en ruinas.

La vida es lo que tú decides que sea; independientemente de dónde te coloca el destino, la lógica y el libre albedrío significan que cada persona puede hacer lo que quiera con su vida.

even Chosen had the right to choose

I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of anything." She lifted her chin. "When it comes to protecting the lives of my young and the male I love, I will lay my life down in the path of their destiny, and if you beat me to death because of it, I will rise from the dead and haunt you to the point of insanity. There is nothing you can do to me that will make me back down. Nothing.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

Honey, I live in heels.

Mick hadn't become the NFL'S leading quarterback by lying back and playing dead.

Then quit sitting here like a whiny pussy and go do something about it.

Let's go, Evelyn.

You're a stubborn woman, Evelyn.

Try not to come back. Oh, I'll be back, but it'll be to ask you out. Give it up, jock. It's not going to happen. We'll see.

Go win the game.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.

Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.

You just stay focused on what you have to do. Exactly.

Either go at it full force or don't go at it at all. Don't dabble.

When you actively turn your thoughts to all the bad consequences of the desires as they arise in you, the passion for them gradually dries up. As your passion diminishes, your mind comes under control. Firm, dedicated faith (sraddha) brings you the raw force of determination, will.