Quotes About Determination

Rise to the challenge, he told himself. You can do it. Because you have to. Inwardly Kesselring sighed. He had always thought people who espoused the wonders of positive thinking were deluding themselves.

She reached up over Jesus' ecstatic, smug, "I-can-walk-on-water-and-you-can't" face and yanked the door open.

We can't turn our backs on this." "I know we can't. It's following us.

If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

He recalled what Lyndon Johnson had said when Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson suddenly found himself president. Words to the effect that he would do the best he could do, because that was all he could do.

Two thousand miles to dine on a dish of red herring," he said.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

This means that I can do whatever I really want. God is always with me. There is no thing as a loser after all.

Don't quit. It will happen one day.

What?' I said, and increased the speed of his treadmill to four kilometres per hour. 'Slower, bhai.' 'It's fine. Your heart rate should go up. You weighed yourself? How much was it?' 'Ninety-five point five.' 'That's too much, Saurabh.' 'I am working on it. One day I will have a six-pack like you. Actually, I do have one. It's just hidden under some tissue.

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat

I can't let someone I just met get the better of me, I thought, shaking my head. I switched off the lights and lay down. I had to catch an early-morning flight to Mumbai the next day and had a four-hour window of sleep. I couldn't wait to reach home. However

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But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

Take/Throw a Punch

Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.

Failure is not frailty. Success never guarantees.

He couldn't get a ball to stay on the alley. When he had fired about fifteen balls and hadn't yet reached the cluster of pins, his annoyance began to show out through his clothes. He wouldn't let it show in his face; but after another fifteen balls he was not able to control his face; he didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.