Quotes About Determination

May I ask a question, Lucy?" "Go right ahead!" "Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?" "Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown... You have to draw the line someplace!

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

Wouldn't you like just for once to see Charlie Brown hit that ball?" "No... I'm not prepared to have the world come to an end!

Sidewalks always win Knees always lose!

Marcie mi sta facendo un costume, Snoopy. Adesso è solo questione che io e te ci occupiamo del mio pattinaggio in modo che possa far bene nella gara... Come sono le mie figure? BLEAH!! Non sei un grande addolcitore di pillole, vero?

Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.

While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.

The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you... That's when you find out what's in your heart.

She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest. "You got to fight it with your heart." She pulled me back to her chest and sucked through her teeth like she was trying to pick the corn out with her tongue. "If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

the magnetic hope that bubbled forth from each, a hope that no power in hell or on earth could ever extinguish.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

What does not change / is the will to change.

One sees more clearly in the fog because one has to look harder.

Horniness and hunger are the actual elements that determine a groundhog's behavior when it emerges in winter from months of hibernation.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver and drove his spurs into the flanks of his strong horse Bo and charged directly at the bandits. It was a sight to see. He held the revolvers wide on either side of the head of his plunging steed. The four bandits accepted the challenge and they likewise pulled their arms and charged their ponies ahead.

Yes, but that was the way she wanted to do it. And furthermore she didn't want him going out there with her now. Three exclamation marks appeared over Norwood's head. No, her mind was made up.

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.