Quotes About Determination

Fight for faith, and hope will be born.

Chase leaned on the table, staring Sammy straight in the eye. "If you ever, ever try to harm my mate again, in any way, no matter how indirectly, I will find you.

Better make sure you're not in my way when I go down." My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. "You wouldn't want to get squashed.

It ain't over 'til it's over.-Yogi Berra

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings' making, and I had come out stronger.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

This war's not over! Not by a long shot! --Enoch

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible.He'd been wrong.

Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.

I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.

There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.

Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.