Quotes About Determination

Da bambina facevo esattamente la stessa cosa: mi sdraiavo sul letto con i piedi al sole sul davanzale della finestra perché a quel tempo avevo sempre i piedi freddi. Poi mi mettevo a leggere un libro, e questa scena con me sdraiata che leggo un libro mandava mia madre su tutte le furie, certa com'era che fossi destinata a una vita di indolenza, quando invece ero solo destinata a scrivere libri che altri avrebbero letto (34).

this is how to love a man; and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up

Jamela Dunbar

You do not fail when you try, you fail when you do not try."

James A. Belasco

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!

Still, one does what one must.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you

It's hell... Just hell. It's just plain hell... But you gotta go through with it.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead." He paused, then added,

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.