Quotes About Determination

You know what I think? Edenists don't get caught in the beyond because you're cool enough under pressure to figure your way out. Well, me too, pal. Laton said there was a way out. I believe him. The Kiint found it. Just knowing that it's possible is my ticket to exit.

Only one way to be sure.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

barrel-chested general was like the proverbial boxer with an iron right punch and a granite jaw.

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

posible que me caiga —concluí—, pero mientras siga respirando y tenga fuerzas para seguir esforzándome, me levantaré.

Hmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!

When we speak, we speak for will!

Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared. There is only one path to fearlessness. It's the one that leads into the mysterious center of the terror.

Do you think that people determine their own lives, Smilla?" "The details," I say, "but the big things happen on their own.

record—jacked one up the chamber, and continued to belt the lion as frequently as I could.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

There's always relief in committing to a decision, even when there's no choice.

She must have been freezing, and it filled Pete with gratitude for the no-bullshit people of the earth, the people who knew what had to be done and would find their own damn coat later.

He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.

Lotta blamming ahead.

No ascendemos al nivel de nuestras habilidades, caemos al nivel de nuestras excusas».

We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses.

Always remember your focus determines your reality.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.