Quotes About Determination

What makes one person's dreams come true when another's don't? Determination. Action. Desire.

I'd already decided you were mine, You just didn't know it yet

No more. There is no in between.

Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.

He wants you. I want you. I can't walk away from you, Amy, and I have this sense that you could bolt at any minute. And yes, you're right. I'm being barbaric. And intense. That's who I am and I can't be anyone but me. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.

Mark's navigating dark and stormy waters, and I'm either going to pull him out, or drown with him. I don't know which.

Never say never, baby," Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life.

So you think long and hard about what you see here today, and where you're headed. But if you run, run fast. Because I'm going to come after you. That's just the kind of bastard I can't seem to help being

It's all or nothing with Chris.

True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

Sweetheart, if a box of chocolate and some flowers win you over, then you weren't ever mine to start with. But you are mine. He just doesn't know it yet. - Nick

You do know I couldn't let you run, don't you?" "I wasn't—" "You were." "If you think that, then why'd you come after me?" "Because you didn't want to run. You just thought you had to." "That's a little arrogant." "It's honest. I like honesty.

There was a momentary lull in the shooting and spellslinging, and the kid started scrambling to his feet. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. "In my family that's not silence; it's reloading.

The road that went around and between the buildings hadn't been plowed, but Yasha didn't let that slow him down. He grinned at me in the rearview mirror. "No problem. Is like Siberia." "You've never been to Siberia," Ian said, his eyes still scanning for any movement other than our own. "True. But does not mean is not like Siberia.

However, a very wise man of my acquaintance once said: 'I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

volleyball. Even being "almost the best" would be alright.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

Sooner or later, if you want to do what's never been done, you have to find the courage to take the first step. Just like J. Norm said, Only impossible journeys achieve the impossible.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

No way out but through the storm now.