Quotes About Determination

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett

You can run," he said. "But you'll only die tired.

Sometimes it was better to pick the first purpose that made sense and live for it single-mindedly than dither between goals that couldn't all be achieved.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb

what you call my struggle to submit . . . is not struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR

If you want to measure the height of a mountain, the hardest part isn't finding the peak, it's figuring out where the bottom starts.

She had felt capable of anything.

Sua mãe e eu sempre ficávamos muito satisfeitos, em segredo, com o fato de você ser tão determinada e intensa em relação a suas causas. Quando você foi embora, entendemos que essas eram as qualidades que definem os homens como espertos e ambiciosos e as mulheres como um problema.

People didn't believe in you unless you convinced them that you believed in yourself.

Or any number of the jobs she'd tried and failed at before seeing a story in The Atlanta Journal about women police officers being trained for motorcycle patrol. Motorcycle patrol! Kate laughed at her naïveté. If the firearms instructors were loath to train women, the motorcycle division was downright hostile to the idea of women on bikes. The riding instructor wouldn't even allow them inside the garage.

At this rate, the only way she was going to get laid was to crawl up a chicken's ass and wait.

Sam knew that this was exactly how Gamma would've wanted to be remembered: head straight, shoulders back, teeth ground, forever stalking joy.

things. You just needed math.

small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's.

Paul looked at the man for the first time since he'd walked through the door. "Should I go punch him in the nose?" "Yes." "Will you take me to the hospital when he punches me back?" "Yes." Paul smiled, but only because she was smiling, too. "So, how does it feel to be untethered?

Charlie turned off the engine. She asked, "Can you make the walk?" "Yes." Charlie didn't move. "I don't want to be a jerk—" "Be a jerk." "If you fall in front of those bitches, they'll laugh

She wanted to talk to the stranger who had kidnapped her son, to beg him to give her her Johnny back. She knew her baby was in there somewhere, and she would not give up.

Nolan slapped his palms down on the table. "Ya know, Claire, you should really start answering my questions." "Why?" "Because I'm with the FBI. My side always wins." "You keep saying that, but I do not think those words mean what you think they mean." He nodded appreciatively. "Rockin' a little Inigo Montoya. I like it.

As much as I want to make it easier for you, I know that it'll never take unless you do it all on your own.

The worst part was that she was turning into one of those annoying people who got so caught up whining about a bad situation that they forgot they were actually capable of doing something about it.

Andrea had nothing left to dig. She knew her stomach would probably shit out of her throat if she pushed herself any harder.

You sure? Sure as two fists can be.

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history'