Quotes About Determination

In Torrance, a one-boy insurgency was born.

Laura Hillenbrand

With heads thrown back, legs pumping out of sync, Louie and Lash drove for the tape. With just a few yards remaining, Lash began inching up, drawing even. The two runners, legs rubbery with exhaustion, flung themselves past the judges in a finish so close, Louie later said, "you couldn't put a hair between us.

Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way.

Louie killed time by sleeping on Mitchell's navigator table and taking flying lessons from Phil. On some flights, he sprawled behind the cockpit, reading Ellery Queen novels and taxing the nerves of Douglas, who eventually got so annoyed at having to step over Louie's long legs that he attacked him with a fire extinguisher.

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

Louie made a habit of sitting next to the mountainous shot putter Jack Torrance, who had an inexplicably tiny appetite. When Torrance couldn't finish his entrée, Louie dropped onto the plate like a vulture.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

I guess we've both managed to plow through a lot of shit. Well listen, it's been enough to make me nothing short of fanatically determined to have it right once and that's what we're doing, right? - Janis Joplin

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.

them. "Go to hell," she said, and stood up. "Or better yet, go back to Egypt. That godforsaken place is probably hotter and more miserable than hell anyway.

This was the dawn of a new day, and a new Emma Dove. Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go. She had never been more scared in her life.

If I'm to be damned, I'll be damned as a lion, not as a lamb.

She would continue to be mistress of her own life. She would be no victim, not of her circumstances, not of Fate, and certainly not of any man. Not ever again.

Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.

Viola was just as passionate in her rage as she was in her desire, just as stubborn in hate as she had been in love.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

It's impossible to imagine her in thrall to anything, anyone. She calls the shots even while pretending not to. Even in motherhood, she has shown this steely control.

They didn't fuck me up, my mom and dad. On that score, I'm a self-made woman.

quiet courage. "It's not the courage that allows you to run into a burning building. It's the kind that allows you to accept the unacceptable, bear the unbearable, keep going.

I shiver with anger and hold on to the beautiful strength of this clean emotion

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.