Quotes About Determination

They wouldn't have

Fighting isn't about knowing how, it's about deciding to.

Carl Hollywood was appalled to realize that the only thing now standing between them and their three-decade march to the banks of the Huang Pu was Carl Hollywood, his .44, and a handful of lightly armed civilians.

We don't have to satisfy him," Stan said. "We just have to be able to look him in the eye when we're telling him to fuck off.

his first instinct with things that troubled him was to wall them off, and then wait for them to grow bad enough to threaten the structural integrity of the wall, and then, finally, to get out a sledgehammer.

Then — moving as fast as a man could over wet slick tree-roots with one chicken-neck clenched in each fist —

Pelear no es cuestión de saber hacerlo, sino de decidir hacerlo.»

He remained in engineering and did more and more poorly at it until the middle of his senior year

Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do in order to ensure that you won't have to keep on doing it! This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine

If you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains.

This is what is meant by being single-minded. If you choose something, choose it with all your might, with all your heart. Don't be faint-hearted. Keep going! Keep moving toward it. Be determined.

economic—when economic security and basic materialistic needs are guaranteed to all—then incentive will not disappear, but be of a different sort, increasing in strength and determination, producing true greatness, not the kind of transparent, transient "greatness" which present incentives produce.

But how then can I be truly grateful for something I know is not there? Faith. If you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains. You

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

My Tentacles have Tentacles and I'm never going to cut them off. But my Anchor, that's easy: it's killing myself. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

I click END. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.

then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.

We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps

I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn't answer. I intended to kill it.