Quotes About Determination

Mothertrucker

And no worries, my elevator still goes to the top floor.

She was going to be mine, but then my landlord said no dogs." "You live in your own house." "I'm awfully strict.

SonOfABumblebee

Hold on. Pru gave him a long look. if you're trying to say you don't want to do this after talking me into it, then let me be clear and say that I will run you through with my umbrella while you sleep. Finn blinked. That was oddly specific and violent.

it's the mark of a man how he handles hardship, not what he does for a living.

If you have a why to live for… you can tolerate any how.

Why choose failure when success is always an option?

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren't enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you're able to make a choice. It's the choice that counts.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin, Murphy said quietly. But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it. She nodded at me and said, Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.

My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you. She looked up at me calmly. Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.

You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden

Do you really think you can win?' 'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with today.' 'But even if you do win, what does it change?' 'Me getting kiilled now. That way, I get to be killed later tonight instead.' - Susan Rodriguez & Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. -Harry

I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.