Quotes About Determination

One does one's best - Silk

Now there's something for you to think about. If you don't know that you can't do something, isn't there a remote possibility that you'll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don't know that you can't pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm's length, maybe you can.

I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.

What you have to decide is whether you should do something, not whether you can do it.

You don't have to like it, you know. All you have to do is to do it.

If that's the way we have to do it, then that's the way we'll do it.

And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety

impotency; many developed

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.

Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.

Life is life tennis: Those who serve best usually win.

It´s all optional. Do it or die.

A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

At the end of the day the hatred for all of the work is just part of the work

Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.

He took zero in the way of shit

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.

It's all optional; do it or die.

The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6?5? Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.

Marathe was prepared to die violently at any time, which rendered him free to choose among emotions.