Quotes About Determination

Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

Do you mind? You're interrupting my training." "Ah." His dark blond brows quirked upward as his gaze followed the line of her body to where she still hung by her ankles. "What exactly is it you're training for up there, Cirque du Soleil?

We didn't start this war, but we're sure as fuck going to finish it.

Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.

But this spirited little human had him by the balls, and some small part of him liked it. Hell's bells, as Shade would say, Hell's fucking bells.

Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con

So ask me again why I'll win a battle of wills." "Fine." She jammed her feet under the covers. "Why?" "Because I'm immortal and you're a mere human. I have an eternity to out-stubborn you.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.

said, his voice thick with anger, "I'm going to get into her

Courage is fear that has said its prayers." And

Push yourself, again and again, into positions that say 'no' to your opponent. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

My thoughts were always that that night was the most important game in the world. Everybody in the world was watching that one game. And I had to be the best player on the court and win that game that night. That was my mentality, and it stuck with me all the way through my career.

I was always driven on the basketball court. I always wanted to win every game I played in, sometimes too much. When you're out on the playground just playing, and you're scraping, fighting, and do whatever you can to win the game. When it's all over with, you're friends, and I'd think, 'Why did I get like that?' That's the way I've always been.

There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.

But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

We all select our fates based on the paths we choose.

You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. It isn't the head, but the stomach that determines [your] fate. —Peter Lynch, Beating the Street