Quotes About Determination

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

He wrote, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

anymore." I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place. During

it ain't over till it's over.

There's a popular saying, a paraphrase of a Robert Frost poem: "The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

People don't finish, Rose. People stop. To finish is to say okay, now it's right, never I'm going to change it. To stop is to say okay, it's not perfect, but I have to go to something else.

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

Resilience, thy name is Devine.

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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

Well, why not shoot for it? she thought. That moon's there as much for me as for anybody.

Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.

Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

You worry me, Catherine. You seem to think you're quite invincible." "I'm well aware that I'm not. But I'll not spend my life cowering. That would be no life at all.

I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

Would you rather leave?" "Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.

Dr. Freeman said she couldn't have children. Christ, I'll never touch her again." "You'll touch her," Houston said. Dallas looked up, determination etched deeply in the lines of his face. "No, I won't." "Yes, you will. One night, she'll curl up against you, all innocent-like—" Compassion, understanding, and a wealth of sympathy filled Houston's gaze. "You'll touch her.

How did you get in here?" Sterling asked, wishing his words didn't sound quite so slurred. He was having more difficulty than usual bringing his shadowed world into focus. Damnation, why hadn't he lit more lamps or poured himself fewer snifters of brandy? "Not important," Jack Dodger said. "What is important is for you to realize that you can do nothing to keep us out if we decide we want in.

He wondered briefly what it was like to dream. He never did. Possibly because he so seldom slept. He was obsessed with obtaining all the wealth he could, burning the midnight oil as often as possible. It protected a person from having to do things he didn't want to do.

A man lived or died according to his decisions in life.

Is there nothing you want so desperately that you'd be willing to do anything in order to acquire it?