Quotes About Determination

Yes, I am more Russian than many others, and I will not sit still

Cowboy up, cupcake.

Make a plan," Dad always said. "And if that doesn't work, make another one and if that doesn't work, you're probably the problem.

I woke up on May 15 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Something Fane fully

I am not stunted. I am vertically challenged. - Levet

Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.

You're not too old, it's not too late, and yes you can.

You want to be the one making the decisions. Sitting on the fence is one thing, but what happens when the fence is taken away from you? Do you jump off joyfully or fall crashing to the floor?

Put me down and I'll show you," said Scarlett. Rhett lowered her to her feet. His big hands closed on her shoulders, and he pulled her to him impatiently, then kissed her, briefly, firmly, and let her go. "I'd hate to be shot without getting what I came for," he said. She could hear the laughter in his voice. "Now, Scarlett, get us out of here.

I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

but instead of focusing inwardly like a victim—What is going to happen to me?—the sergeant retained his warrior mindset and focused externally on stopping the threat.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

I think he wants to use you to get to me, because I'm hard to corner." Devlin picked up her suitcase. "Maybe if he figures if he threatens you, I'd walk into a trap bare-ass naked with my hands up." "And would you do that?" she asked, already knowing the answer. "In a minute and with a smile on my face.

From deep contentment comes the courage to achieve.

Not only is that all we can do; it's what we have to keep doing, no matter how many of those meals end up in the garbage can.