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Quotes About Determination

A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. "Wot I say?" the dog-driver cried to Perrault. "Dat Buck for sure learn queek as anyt'ing.
~ Jack London
Buck did not cry out. He did not check himself, but drove in upon Spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. They rolled over and over in the powdery snow. Spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing Buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.
~ Jack London
One bully long res'.
~ Jack London
Animava-o a coragem que o medo dá.
~ Jack London
his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle.
~ Jack London
He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.
~ Jack London
How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?" His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he replied, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get along pretty well with them. 
~ Jack London
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~ Jack London
But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.
~ Jack London
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
~ Jack London
So he was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more than once he cried involuntary from the bite of his inward hurt.
~ Jack London
Thornton's doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle.
~ Jack London
The will to live, was his thought, and the thought was accompanied by a sneer.
~ Jack London
That is why they are for'ard, in that pigsty of a forecastle, because they lack the iron.
~ Jack London
You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
~ Jack London
She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal, up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from the damp cloth under the irons of the many ironers. From the girls and women near her
~ Jack London
WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain...
~ Jack London Martin Eden
I was a precocious child, and I resolved to read everything I could get my hands on, in order to encapsulate the whole of human knowledge. At the time the project seemed less impractical than it does today. I did as best I could and by the time I was ten or elven had read what I suspect was equivalent to a college education.
~ Jack Vance
I inquire yours?" "I am Kirth Gersen.
~ Jack Vance
Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.
~ Jack Vance
As Genghis Khan reportedly said, there is no good in anything until it is finished.
~ Jack Weatherford
Kill, don't mourn.
~ Jack Weatherford
prudent, steadfast, and courageous.
~ Jack Weatherford
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement it like a hell.
~ Jack Welch