Quotes About Determination

I almost passed the IQ test," he said in a low, shaky voice.

Okay, he said to himself. Here goes.

Let people call me crazy; fuck them.

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?" That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

Marisa! Marisa!" The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra's mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

We'll find a way. There is a way. We just don't know it yet. Don't stop….

I wish... she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.

Being cheerful starts now, Will thought as hard as he could, but it was like trying to hold a fighting wolf still in his arms when it wanted to claw at his face and tear out his throat; nevertheless, he did it, and he thought no one could see the effort it cost him.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse!

Write some letters." "Don't want to." "Bake a cake to give that boy a slice of." "He might come while I'm still making it, and then we'd have to make conversation for an hour and a half till it was ready. Anyway, we've got some biscuits." "Well, I give up," he said.

Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?

Lyra swore with every word she knew.

Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

I think Lyra's braver than me; I think she's the best friend I ever had.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. And I ain't sure I like that any more than a war I'm enlisted in without knowing about it. Where's my free will, if you please?