Quotes About Determination

There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.

Fate whispered to the warrior, "You cannot withstand the coming storm." And the warrior whispered back, "I am the storm.

Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible.

A man only unsheathes his jambiyah if he is going to use it.

Nelson DeMille

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

When Jack Colby first came aboard The Maine looking for a job, wearing a T-shirt that said: "Wounded Combat Vet—Some Reassembly Required

do. As a wise man (me) once said, "The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Nelson DeMille

that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

From a squalid izba to a space capsule—log cabin to the stars. You have to give these people credit where it's due.

I was about to rule this a dumbicide

It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Nelson DeMille

Fate whispered to the warrior, You cannot withstand the coming storm. And the warrior whispered back, I am the storm.

Use a gun that works every time. As George Washington said, 'All skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.

He met the femme de chambre upon the landing. 'I have made up my mind,' he said heavily. 'La petite Rose may come with us to England; I will take her to her father. She must be ready to start to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock.

Mary looked at her gratefully. "Well, that's what I think. I mean, I couldn't bear to—to just stop doing things and do nothing. You might as well die now and get it over." Moira nodded. "If what they say is right, we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

For the first time Alix began to understand long-distance flying. It was not courage, or resourcefulness, or ability that counted in this game, though they were necessary subsidiary qualities. It was the capacity to work efficiently at tiring, menial tasks upon the ground that made great flights a success.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!

Surely my mother could do anything to which she set her mind

You may be able to write a novel, you may not . You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

President Franklin Roosevelt argued that all that Americans had to fear was 'fear itself'.