Quotes About Determination

but they offer sufficient proof that 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, to choose one's own way.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

Even if it's dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

After hearing the kids at the Ground discuss the Pro Tour, Finkel burned to compete. But the event was invite only. And who was going to invite a total unknown? Rather than sit by the side, he picked up the phone and called Wizards. "My name is Jon Finkel," he loudly declared, "and I was wondering if I could come to the Pro Tour." What the hell, the staff at Wizards thought, if the kid had the balls to call up and ask for an invitation, how could they say no? Careful

If we can get this done," Romero said, "this is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

You have no fear?" "I don't let it make my decisions for me.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Kira was on her way, unhinged on top of everything else.

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.

You are but a hard turd in the ass of my journey.

There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.

We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.

25th March, 1873.—Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I encourage myself in the Lord my God, and go forward.