Quotes About Determination

As for the name of the theory behind selling enough stock to become millionaires, Richman told me, "I don't know how you put it in the vernacular. We called it the Fuck You Theory.

Perhaps appearances deceive, and she is stronger than she looks.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly. For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own. 'Imagine, I didn't even know I could do this. That's some encouragement that i'mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons—maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too.

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And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

Ben: 'Just...finish it.' Caedus: ' Finish it? Ben, we're just getting started.' --Ben Skywalker and Darth Caedus

We can handle it.

You don't understand. I finally find something worth doing and you … you have to try to spoil it. Why can't you just wish me luck and be glad that I might achieve something with my life instead of sitting around getting drunk or taking roet?" - Lorkin

Some things are worth risking lives for," he said. "If you had seen what the Ashaki do – experienced it – you'd want to rid the world of them, too." - Lorkin

There are always people out there who want me gone," Cery said. "I'll go when I'm ready.

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You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped.

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

Show me a cheerful loser and I'll show you a lunatic," Gowdy said in his postgame column for United News wire service. "I never made an alibi in my life and I'm too old to start.

in August 1976, a raging George Steinbrenner offered this morale-booster: "You will never be able to pitch in this league.

a raging George Steinbrenner offered this morale-booster: "You will never be able to pitch in this league.

I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and if one fails, there will be another to take his place.

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

but no man is so brave that he may not meet such defeats and disasters as to discourage him and dampen his ardor for any cause, no matter how just he deems it.