Quotes About Determination

He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.

And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.

Dedication and hardwork is a great combination to start with.

Gustavo and Roberto suspected gangrene, but Rafael never allowed himself to sink into self-pity. Instead he kept his courage and humor, even as the poison flowed through his system and the flesh of his leg rotted before his eyes. "I am Rafael Echavarren!" he would shout every morning, "and I will not die here!" There was no surrender in Rafael, no matter how he suffered, and I felt stronger every time I heard him say those words.

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

Always this man gives me strength.

And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.

People make what they need for themselves," says Roxy. "My dad says that. If there's something you need, something you really have to have—not just want to but have to, you'll find a way to get it.

One of them says, "Why did they do it, Nina and Darrell?" And the other answers, "Because they could." That is the only answer there ever is.

Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can

And—who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is going to find them and illuminate every glistening thing: both sequins and sweat.

who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

Roxy doesn't run from fights at school. . . . You've got to stomp them till they beg. You don't run.

I think that's what most of us want, really, isn't it? A challenge that's just hard enough that we can accomplish it, but it'll take everything we've got. So that there's no room left in us for the doubt, the worry, the internal crises. We have to let it fill us up because that's the only way to get the job done.

She can't afford to afford to look weak, not at a time like this.

He realizes now that he could not stop her, whatever she wanted to do now. The thought is terrifying. The thought is electrifying.

It's a sort of pride to her that she watched the whole thing without wincing or looking away or carrying on.

So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.

sustains us day after day. But the relentless

Dina, who couldn't imagine not working when everyone else was, didn't think twice. What did being tired have to do with it? You worked until the work was done.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I am the kind of man who takes what he wants. I am the kind of man who fights for what he has. I am the man who fucks his wife on his dead ex-fiancée's bed, because the past can't contain me and I mold the future to my liking.

We clean it up and we keep going," I say firmly. "Life is one mess after another, and there's nothing you or I or anyone else on this planet can do to change that. So when messes happen, like they always will, there's only one thing to do: you clean it up. And you keep going. Say that to me.