Quotes About Determination

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo. But the more I think about it, the more I think that maybe I wouldn't say anything motivational at all. It's quite possible that I might briskly slap my hands against my knees and say, "Sounds like it's time you gave up.

every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

now her voice was loud and clear. "This can happen to anyone.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." Good one, Leonardo.

worse. She wanted to

Move on. Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

Good for you. Never forgive. Never forget. That's my motto.

care that he didn't care? When he was a kid all he'd wanted to do was beat his older brother, in anything and

Come on. We're not going to let her bother

She looked at her dad, the only innocent one in their family, on his hands and knees peering at the lock. He'd get them out of here. He could fix anything, given the opportunity. He just hadn't been given the opportunity to fix Zach.

She was an obsessive sort of woman, really.

So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you?

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." His eyes gleamed in the shadows from the candlelight. "That's, ah, from Nelson Mandela's favorite poem, 'Invictus.

How dare this smug little plastic stick have the power to decide her future?

He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia.

It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. She had

refusing to give him the satisfaction.

And yet here she was. There was nothing else to do, nowhere else to turn. "Goddamn it," she said, and turned

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh…

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.