Quotes About Determination

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction , New York Times, April 19, 1992]

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

If I dont go will you go anyways? John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.

Cuando sueñes con un mundo que nunca existió o con un mundo que no existirá y estés contento otra vez entonces te habrás rendido. ¿Lo entiendes? Y no puedes rendirte. Yo no lo permitiré.

She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way. The coin didn't have no say. It was just you. Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same way the coin did.

Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off.

Other than a light beading of sweat on his forehead there was little evidence that his labors had cost him anything at all.

If you knew there was somebody out there afoot that had two million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit lookin for em? That's right. There aint no such a point.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? Getting up this morning, he said.

I think that if there was a reason then that would just be one more thing to inquire about. My notion is you probably make up reasons after you've decided what it is you're goin to do. Or not do.

There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here.

We'll just take it one step at a time. Okay. Don't let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

Okay. This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They dont give up. Okay.

De acuerdo. Esto es lo que hacen los buenos. Seguir intentándolo. Jamás se rinden.

You have to carry the fire.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her. Your mother's dead Llewelyn. Well I'll tell her myself then.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.