Quotes About Determination

A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals.

Bitch, I'm here to tell you that it's going to be all right. We'll get through this shit, motherfucker, just you wait.

It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

For the first time in memory, I was unable to sleep not because I was anxious but because I was excited. To live in a damp crowded asshole and sing--if these guys don't know the secret to living, I don't know who does. (The Grieving Owl, page 157)

Back off, world. It's time for me to be good to me.

A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.

That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.

When it comes time to decide who gets the bottom bunk, I think anyone would agree that there's a lot to be said for doing things the hard way.

I said to him, I said, 'And another thing, dick stain, after this baby is born, I'm gonna take one look at its shit-covered face and if it looks anything like you, I'll have the doctor saw its fucking head off and use it for bait. I swear to God I will

Why aren't you stronger? I wanted to ask. I mean, really. Can't you just try harder? Of course, I was drunk too, so what could I say?

As for the ewe, she was still in meditation, her eyes clamped shut, repeating the code of thieves and charlatans and those who are good to themselves the world over. I have to do what I have to do, she said. I have to do what I have to do.

I left the store determined that when and if it was ever my turn and I was the author seated at that table, I was going to engage people until they grew old, or at least thirsty. Well, all right, then, they'd say, looking past me for the nearest exit, let me let you go. I would see them until they wilted.

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

Conocí a un piloto que decía: si nadie está tratando de adelantarte, preocúpate. Quizá es que vas el último.

It's natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the "not." Charlie had a gift for ignoring.

that which he most loved i hated; and the very determination which he expressed to keep me in ignorance, only rendered me the more resolute in seeking intelligence

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

immobilized their vehicles. And some of their

But then she looked into the single brown eye of the gaunt, half-naked woman facing her, and a wolf looked back at her—a wounded pack leader, starved and weakened, who had been goaded and harried by the hounds on its back trail but would be harried no more. A wolf who would die where it stood rather than be driven further.

Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living through the next three minutes were, but it didn't matter. They were all that stood between six hundred civilians and cold-blooded murder, and Alicia's green eyes were hard as she watched the gaps being punched through the western wall. Make it count, people, she said, almost conversationally.

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