Quotes About Determination

When you find yourself in a position in which you have not asked but need to, are you relying too heavily on luck, chance, or time? Push those temptations away, and make your ask.

Somos grandes, alitas y nada...nada podrá pararnos'' Bran

No se puede someter al viento del desierto. Tampoco se puede detener a una mujer que ya ha elegido un hombre." Jeque al-Harit.

La nueva Viana había nacido y crecido a la sombra de la invasión bárbara y de todo lo que había surgido de ella. La nueva Viana, comprendió de pronto, estaba preparada para luchar.

aunque cada camino llevase a un sitio distinto, cada ser humano era libre para decidir cuál escoger, para volver atrás o, incluso, para abrir su propio camino.

los sueños, como todos sabemos, se sueñan dentro de nuestra cabeza, y se cumplen allí donde te encuentras. El truco es agarrarlos por la cola y no dejarlos ir, cueste lo que cueste. Por más bestias que se interpongan en tu camino.

Creía que estabas muerto-. dijo -Soy demasiado cabezota como para dejarme matar.

Lo importante es ser capaces de salir adelante, no importa lo duro que parezca el camino.

I understand fear better than anybody. Part I don't understand is giving in without a fight.

It's barely sprinkling." He smiled. "Don't be a wuss." "I'm absolutely a wuss. I need coffee.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'll be an easier subject than Seabiscuit, because I can talk." Louis Zamperini to Laura Hillenbrand.

I can't describe the feeling he gave me," Howard said later, "but somehow I knew he had what it takes. Tom and I realized that we had our worries and troubles ahead. We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.

Old Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he said. "Maybe that's enough.

A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport. Now his Olympian's body had wasted to less than one hundred pounds and his famous legs could no longer lift him. Almost everyone outside of his family had given him up for dead.

He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.

When Louie was in his sixties, he was still climbing Cahuenga Peak every week and running a mile in under six minutes. In his seventies, he discovered skateboarding. At eighty-five, he returned to Kwajalein on a project, ultimately unsuccessful

Thorbjørn Christiansen

Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was

Louie never saw a Chong diner finish his meal.

actress Esther Williams on the wall. The note that Louie had left on the locker was gone, as was the liquor. Among Louie's things, Krey found photographs that Louie had taken inside his plane. In some of them, Louie

Who hit you in the butt with a saddle and told you you could ride?" a starter hissed before a race. "The same S.O.B. that hit you in the butt and told you you could start!" he shot back. Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. He was broke, hungry, and, according to his sister Edie, "happy as heck.

Louie grabbed the flare gun, loaded it, and fired. The flare shot straight at the bomber; for a moment, the men thought that it would hit the plane. But the flare missed, passing alongside the plane, making a fountain of red that looked huge from the raft. Louie reloaded and fired again. The plane turned sharply right. Louie fired two more flares, past the tail.

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Eventually, he could stay underwater for three minutes and forty-five seconds. People kept jumping in to save him.