Quotes About Determination

You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.

Will you draw your sword with your free hand? I already have. Will you make a fist with yours? It's clenched.

As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.

I WANT DOMINGO MONTOYA YOU SON OF A BITCH!

Who are those guys?

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.

No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.

Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?

Nobody takes out a sword nowadays and cries, Hello. My name is Inigo Monotoya. You killed my father, prepare to die!

I am Inigo Montoya and I do not accept defeat.

The next morning, Inigo began the track-down. He had it all carefully prepared in his mind. He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.

I am all right. I am fine. I am alive, and I will stay that way.

Mortals alone can change their destinies; heroes are measured by their willingness to do so.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

His remarkable succession of inventions made him appear to possess almost magical powers, so that he was called "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The notion alternately amused and angered him. "Wizard?" he would say. "Pshaw. It's plain hard work that does it." Or, his much quoted statement: "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Laziness, mental laziness in particular, tried his patience.

Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain

We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second

To change one's life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

Freedom is only necessity understood.

The strenuous life tastes better.