Quotes About Determination

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember?the enemy's gate is down . If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. And when a life ends as mine will end, no one can persuade me that the cost was not worth what it has brought me at last.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD. -Petra

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you? If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

Tenía miedo, y el miedo le ponía serio.

Let me tell you about Ender. He's all about beating the other guys. Not just winning-he has to beat the other guy into the ground or he isn't happy.

This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.

There are miracles even reactivity can't pull off, Ender

She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

So why don't you go home? Dink smiled crookedly. Because I can't give up the game. He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. Because I love this.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way. He must believe, to the core of his soul, that he can only do what he and the other children work out for themselves. If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities.

You've got to do something with your life,' said Mazer. And there it was: The tacit recognition that Ender wasn't going home. That he was never going to lead a normal life on Earth.