Quotes About Determination

You think passion is enough. That it's all you really need. You think if something's just really, really important to you, it'll magically appear. Well, passion is all well and good. You won't get nowhere without it. But it's not the whole enchilada. You still gotta go step-by-step like everybody else.

This idea opened a door to my seeing that the rigors and trials of a task that big are not brick walls designed to keep me out. They're just pop quizzes to determine how badly I want in.

Sometimes we have to do things we're scared of. The trick is not to wait until the thing doesn't scare us anymore, because that day might never come. The trick is to do the thing scared.

But you have a way of pushing decisions down the road. It's like you're waiting to be sure how it'll pan out before you decide. But that never works. We can't ever know that going in. I think you just need to choose a path and see where it takes you.

All he had to do was not look down. And yet he always looked down. Every time. The more he told himself not to look down, the more he looked. It was a key example of life running frustratingly out of his control. Even Buddy seemed to be outside Buddy's sphere of influence.

People can do all manner of things if it's important enough. If a mother can lift a car off her son, maybe she can die at just the right time to save him.

She was the bravest, quietest girl she knew how to be at a time like that.

It doesn't help anybody to say, "I'm overwhelmed" or "I just can't." If you have to, then you just do. She

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

Man does not live by wimpy coffee.

Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.

Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn't always easy. Anyway,

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.

We deal with everything, because, short of actually deciding not to live anymore, we don't have any other option. Not one damned option.

higher and kicked him.

I decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

Well, here's a thought on that. Raise your ass up off your cot, take it out into the visiting room, and then your eyes will

It did. Actually. Though I'm not sure that was the good news. "You don't sound too sure." "It's just that . . . what you just said . . . it's that kind of advice that lets you know what to do but not how to do it. I mean, how do you not take that stuff on?" "Right. I'll grant you that. It's easier said than done. But practice at it. You'll get better at anything you practice.

The first fifteen miles are the hardest, because I think I can't walk this far.

decided I would be strong, not because I had to be, not because they had used up all the weakness, but because strong was what I wanted for myself.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.