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Quotes About Determination

There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.
~ Jim Butcher
You go back," Jack said. "And you catch the scum who did you." "Back?" I said. "Back to …" "Earth, yeah," Jack said. "Chicago." He closed the folder and dropped it into his out-box. "You gotta find out who killed you." I arched an eyebrow at him. "You're kidding.
~ Jim Butcher
Time to start doing," I whispered.
~ Jim Butcher
You okay? Fix asked her. Have to be, she said.
~ Jim Butcher
So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?
~ Jim Butcher
That's how belief works. The worse the situation is, the more a man's belief can do to sustain him. You've given them something to believe in.
~ Jim Butcher
Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.
~ Jim Butcher
My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.
~ Jim Butcher
If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.
~ Jim Butcher
Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve
~ Jim Butcher
In for a sheep, in for a gargant.
~ Jim Butcher
How do i do this?
~ Jim Butcher
My knuckles ached to meet his nose.
~ Jim Butcher
It's what you do with the want that matters.
~ Jim Butcher
I like her," Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. "She is so tiny and fierce. I don't suppose she knows how to—" "Sanya," Michael said, his voice very firm. "We have talked about this." The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. "It could not hurt to ask." "Sanya." He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The
~ Jim Butcher
Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
~ Jim Butcher
One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I
~ Jim Butcher
We didn't charge into the fray so much as aggressively shamble.
~ Jim Butcher
What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
~ Jim Butcher
We find Maggie," I said. "We take her back. And we kill anyone who gets in the way." Susan
~ Jim Butcher
It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
~ Jim Butcher
I'll give the rat his due—he's got balls that drag the ground when he walks.
~ Jim Butcher
Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.
~ Jim Butcher
There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.
~ Jim Butcher