Quotes About Determination

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you, if you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

There is a difference, he said, between the wise man who gives up because the task is beyond him, and the coward who does not even consider trying. You are brave, but bravery is not enough.

Whatever you do, don't look back.

Time would be precious from now on. It would tick by, of course, as it always had, but Harvey was determined he wouldn't waste it with sighs and complaints. He'd fill every moment with the seasons he'd found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases.

Hold on,' he shouted to the woman, realizing even as he spoke that she wasn't holding anything at all, but guessing that 'hang in there' would have had a terrible ring to it.

Life is as you yourself make it.

Go like hell and go to the grave satisfied." He

It's like asking a gang of kids to lift a Patton tank out of Lake Erie with a few ropes and a raft.

toward the truck. Sam shoved

What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?

You can't drive down the middle of the Mall! I damned well can and will so long as we live to tell about it!

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As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.

Più grande è la sfida, migliori sono gli uomini che la affrontano.

In for a penny, in for a pound - by Max Pesaro

He who gets behind in a race must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

There are big forces that want to keep the Negro down, like Jim Crow, and there are small forces that want to keep you down, like other people, and in the face of all those things, the big ones and the smaller ones, you have to stand up straight and maintain your sense of who you are.

But it's like riding a bike. A hell-bike, made out of hell.

Black people always found a way in the most miserable circumstances. If we didn't, we'd have been exterminated by the white man long ago.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Stubborn breaks when it don't bend

Don't be afraid: you have a best seller on your hands.