Quotes About Determination

10:05 p.m. I don't want your SYMPATHY your PITY your BAND-AID on my MISERY I don't want your WELFARE your I CARE your SHE'S-NOT-LOOKING-NOW-LET'S-STARE Just give me a CHANCE a FAIR FIGHTING CHANCE

There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.

To hold a mighty heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

He was reminded dully of a scene in The Big Parade years ago (was everything in fiction or in film more real to him than fact?) in which the American troops were shown advancing across a wooded slope into battle: walking slowly doggedly on, their guns in their hands, their grim faces set: plodding straight ahead in a kind of frightful and relentless monotony, undeterred by bursting shrapnel, smoke, gas, tank-fire, or their own dead.… He did not push his way through the crowds.

He turned then to go on—and stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly he had never felt so good and so foolish in his life. You God damned fool, he said to himself; if you've got enough curiosity and interest to know what's in that book, then what the hell are you running away from?

recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. "We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible …

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Cobb brought as his guest Tigers third baseman George Moriarity, who during the 1935 World Series as an umpire would distinguish himself by stalking over to the Chicago Cubs dugout and threatening to eject the entire team after some players had made anti-Semitic remarks to Tigers star Hank Greenberg.) The next day Cobb broke his rule about

The umpire ruled that the catcher didn't touch Cobb. He also ruled that Cobb hadn't touched the plate. While the Yankee players were protesting, Cobb sneaked around the bunch and touched the plate.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you're really something!

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him...