Quotes About Determination

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

discipline comme tu saignes!

I'm not frightened, merely giddy. I must break down the distance between the enemy and myself. Confront him horizontally.

Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?

It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, "to get male attention." That would have to be the most painful and time-consuming method to do so ever invented.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

I want to know how I can break down that wall and prove to you that I'm the man for you and figure out what we need to do to go to the next level.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

He's got to go!

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

As sure as my name is Archie and not Archibald, I would have shot that goddamn orangutan dead in his tracks.

Good heavens." Wolfe pushed back his chair, not of course with violence, but with determination. "Archie. Understand this. As a man of action you are tolerable, you are even competent. But I will not for one moment put up with you as a psychologist. I

You're damn right I would." Cramer took a step toward the door, remembered his hat, reached across the red leather chair to get it, and marched out. I went to the hall to see that he was on the outside when he shut the door. When I stepped back in, Wolfe spoke. "No mention of anonymous letters. A stratagem?

So I didn't like it, and I either had to lump it or bow out. I tossed a coin: heads I stick, tails I quit. It landed tails, but I had to veto it because I had already talked to Orrie Cather and he was coming at noon, and I had left messages for Fred Durkin and Saul Panzer. I tossed again, tails again. I tossed once more and it was heads, which settled it. I had to stick.

Mr. Cramer is constantly leaping at the throat of evil and finding himself holding on for dear life to the tip of its tail.

By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang

But he wouldn't find me in the office, sitting there like patience in the hoosegow.

I discovered that I was shivering, decided to stop, and did.

He's the kind that lets out all his sail and then puffs to make his own wind.

No doubt life was hard for him—born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.