Quotes About Determination

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders weren't on my doctor's recommended list of activities, or if I was foolhardy to think I could lift a fifty-pound roll of tar paper into and then out of my car. I was going to do it because it sounded like a blast, like the best possible way to have fun.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

c'est la magie de la constance, la plus difficile et la plus rare de nos vertus.

LE PASSIONI MODERATE, PRODUCONO UOMINI MEDIOCRI...

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall short of your potential.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

The door to Jackson's opens and a man staggers out. He crab-walks away from them, along the pavement until he hits a lamp post. He clings to it, waiting until his legs agree to listen to orders. Confident he has reached an entente cordiale with his knees, he straightens up, watching his rebel legs to see if the truce holds. It does, but only for standing. The moment he attempts a step he is swept around the corner like a trawlerman thrown from a deck in a storm.

I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.

He looked back at the page, got one last glimpse before the match blew itself out. Going to find you today, Andrew. If I don't owe Dolores my life, I owe her that much, at least. Going to find you. Going to kill you dead.

Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone,' he sang.

That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day"—he held his arms wide—"you can do anything." She'd

And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

You told yourself it was okay—because that's what you had to do to cross a body of water—but it wasn't.

Everyone I know lies, breaks their word, and has perfectly legitimate excuses for why they do. Except you. Haven't you ever noticed that? Two times in twelve years, you said you'd find this girl no matter what. And you did. Why? Because you gave your word, babe. And that might not mean shit to the rest of the world, but it means everything to you. Whatever else hapened today, you found her twice, Patrick. When no one else would even try.

All right', Bubba said. '... Just remember, the only sin in battle is hesitation. So don't fucking hesitate.

Dennis Lehane