Quotes About Determination

lindbergh charles ii

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

The future is driven by twin engines: will power and brain power. One shows you possibility, while the other creates it.

The only thing a person can genuinely make in this life is a decision.

They call me 'Big Link' not because I'm a big guy, but because I do big things.

This world leaves the Black man with no choice but to dominate it.

You can't win them all, but I can.

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection

Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and the people that started it just like you

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

You back down and they're gonna walk all over you. Not just today, but every goddamn day.

far noh mattah wat dey say, come wat may, we are here to stay inna Inglan, inna disya time yah...

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.

Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to live every remaining day to the fullest - or quite the opposite: an evasion. An equally ardent determination to distract herself, from what only she could know, and thus a complete failure to inhabit her life in the scarcest respect.

I wasn't brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him, because broken machines can be fixed.

Food was a responsibility, a ward she was determined to go by, ... She'd force herself through to the last forkful even to the point of nausea, because she didn't understand that it was there for her and not the other way round.

Había sido incapaz de discernir si ese frenético ajetreo era lo que afirmaba ser, una ferviente determinación a vivir a tope cada uno de los días que le quedaban, o todo lo contrario, una evasión.