Quotes About Determination

Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.

ever seen The Warden make toward him, or toward anybody else. It warmed all through him like a drink. It was worth three months in any Black Hole

Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?

I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

I am, a stride at a time

With will will we withstand, withsay.

Broken Eggs will poursuive bitten Apples for where theirs is Will there's his Wall

First you must take your degree. Set that before you as your first aim. Then, little by little, you will see your way. I mean in every sense, your way in life and in thinking.

Phall if you but will, rise you must.

Will ye, ay or nay?

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye!

With thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never do.

Tenía la costumbre de tratar los problemas morales como el carnicero a la carne, y en aquel caso había tomado la decisión

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends, having a perfectly good opinion of herself always and an indomitable resolution to have her own way.

The mind generally does not compulsively continue to unearth additional options. It sacrifices concepts in order to reach a speedy decision.

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.

No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.

what do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?

and sometimes throwing your own

never let the naysayers and those who are masters at inculcating self-doubt hold sway in your life.

James Lee Burke

and began making coffee without asking permission.