Quotes About Determination

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

Zo. I'm no damn pussy

The world falling apart isn't an excuse to take up bad habits...

it's hard to march purposefully, or in any other way, when your thighs are screaming like Richard Simmons in a candy store- good God, stop the madness.

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done dictate what we will do.

you are powerful—your choices matter—you matter.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

We Woosters can bite the bullet.

I don't get your drift. I will continue snowing.

But, Ed! Say! Are you going to let him get away with it? Am I going to let him get away with it! said Mr. Cootes, annoyed by the foolish question. Wake me up in the night and ask me! But what are you going to do? Do! said Mr. Cootes. Do! I'll tell you what I'm going to... He paused, and the stern resolve that shone in his face seemed to flicker. Say, what the hell am I going do? he went on somewhat weakly.

His spirit was willing, but his will was not spirited.

Never mind, I said crisply. I have my methods. I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer and let her have it right in the thorax.

Blandings Castle is not for the weak.

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

We run to height a bit in our family, and there's about five-foot-nine of Aunt Agatha, topped off with a beaky nose, an eagle eye, and a lot of grey hair, and the general effect is pretty formidable. Anyway, it never even occurred to me for a moment to give her the miss-in-baulk on this occasion. If she said I must go to Roville, it was all over except buying the tickets.

Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine—tense, absorbed, single-minded.

These are the times that try men's souls. It's never pleasant to be caught in the machinery when a favourite comes unstitched, and in the case of this particular dashed animal, one had come to look on the running of the race as a pure formality, a sort of quaint, old-world ceremony to be gone through before one sauntered up to the bookie and collected.

Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond? No! Absolutely! For a moment the poor chap seemed crushed. But only for a moment. There has always been something of the good old English bulldog breed about Bingo. A strange, sweet smile flickered for an instant over his face. It's all right, he said. I can sneak out through the cellar and climb over the wall at the back. They can't intimidate me!

a chap after the horses.' He had found the right

He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.