Quotes About Determination

It is, right enough," Nan agreed. "He's not the sort of man who can sit there puffing away at his pipe and reading the newspaper. Always has been a goer, my Alf. He'll be a goer until the day he drops dead.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." —Lazarus Long

to be the man you have to beat the man and im the man

to be the man, you gotta beat the man, WOO!

To be the man, you gotta beat the man.

I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.

Eso sólo podría decirlo el futuro; por el momento, lejos de arredrarme sentí un gran coraje, y tuve la certeza de que me había de romper el alma antes que ceder a las fatigas o esquivar algún peligro del arreo.

Sentia atração pelo que se denomina tipos fracassados, disse. Mas, que é, disse, um fracassado? Um homem que não tem, talvez, todos os dons, mas muitos, inclusive bem mais do que os comuns em certos homens de sucesso. Tem esses dons, disse, e não os explora. Ele os destrói. De modo, disse, que na realidade destrói sua vida.

He was playing a game he did not believe he could win, for stakes he could not bear to lose.

So what? That just means I can beat him with both scrolls at the same time!!

What cannot be accomplished by threats can often be achieved by composure. Sit and stare and let your opponent fill the silence with his own demons.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it again. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig

The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Doing what is right, isn't always easy, nor was it meant to be. The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.

After interviewing hundreds of people, I found out how people got over phobias. They all reached the point where they got fed up with being afraid.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

If they were honest, many parents would confess that their primary reasons for not allowing their child to quit something is because of financial reasons, or personal reluctance to get involved, or both.

The end has to come from within.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.