Quotes About Determination

Harry Carlisle

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One of Dorian Purcell's rules for living a good life was that no matter what you were doing, whether it was building a giant tech company or banging your mistress, breaking a competitor and driving him into ruin or playing pinball, you had to commit to it as if it was everything, as if your very survival depended on it.

That is the Promise she made, to live for them. But she has been doing little more than surviving.

You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world

Don't be a quitter. Try harder. Don't be so picky. Be willing to start at the bottom. Prove yourself.

Take charge of your life. Don't be afraid to pursue your dreams. Work hard and don't listen to anyone who says you can't, because you can and you will.

It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

When Addie had signed up for this course she'd been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn't expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.

Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.

We don't have a pedigree, but we have big hearts, determination, and guts. The Carney family is grounded and there's a lot of love.

Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't, wouldn't rely on anyone else ever again.

Remember that you need two socks. How to achieve this feat? Knit both at the same time, and release the idea that they need to be identical!

Dreams remain only wisps of enjoyable but useless imagination if we don't give them an anchor to hold to. If we don't make them determined goals. Faith in God is that anchor. It's what enables that dream to come off the shelf and sit right down in front of us.

you need to take the initiative.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

She said she was going to do it. She said it was the only way she would ever be free.

Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory