Quotes About Determination

As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.

I am still afraid. But I am not terrified.

Dennis Lehane

That when a woman moves on, she doesn't look back, and I'm that woman.

They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.

He gave me the same shrug and I saw that his mind wasn't for the changing. People like Mulkern are used to creating the facts on their own, then letting the rest of us in.

È un'isola, capo. Ci troveranno sempre.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.

In one case, you're hoping someone else will do the right thing. In the other case, you're directing your own life, even if someone else does something stupid. Guess which path is going to be more successful.

happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy—which would only give evil another victory—I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.

part in this story.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

Ye're mine, Sassenach. And I would do anything I thought I must to make that clear.

I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.

Go to hell, Jamie, I said at last, wiping my eyes. Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. There. Do you feel better now?

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort of thing that will make a man sweat and tremble and throw up . . . and go and do what he thinks he has to do anyway.