Quotes About Determination

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.

Y.T. is maxing at a Mom's Truck Stop on 405, waiting for her ride. Not that she would ever be caught dead at a Mom's Truck Stop. If, like, a semi ran her over with all eighteen of its wheels in front of a Mom's Truck Stop, she would drag herself down the shoulder of the highway using her eyelid muscles until she reached a Snooze 'n' Cruise full of horny derelicts rather than go into a Mom's Truck Stop.

Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

Fighting isn't about knowing how," Ty said. "It's about deciding to.

this is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.

It is easy to be eyes and ears. It is harder to be fists and feet.

Get where?" Yul demanded.

It's like putting on crampons and trying to walk through a room full of puppies.

For the most part they were oddly cheerful. Beyond a certain point it was all just kicking through wreckage.

Thirty seconds later, he's down in the cargo hold, Paul Bunyaning a crate of .45-caliber ammunition.

It was clear how he had become the leader of a sort of gang back home: not by asserting his leadership but by being so relentless in his production, evaluation, and exploitation of ideas that his friends had been left with no choice but to form up in his wake.