Quotes About Determination

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

You need, besides determination, all the other attributes that will push a project along. You must have application, you must be prepared to work hard, you must be prepared to get people to work with you.

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

Etsuko held the watch case in her hands and wondered how they'd stayed together with him not giving up and her not giving in.

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Those who don't expect to win, don't win. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

I had figured out, long ago, that it paid to do what the competition found difficult, distasteful or even just a waste of time.

Better to know defeat from courage

I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

Born to lose. Live to win.

Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places