Quotes About Determination

I am capable. I am capable. I am capable.

Are you frightened now?" I nodded, shame flushing my skin. "Is it going to stop you?" "No." "That is the courage of a warrior.

There was a saying that the strength of a man's steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance.

Carlston, at least, believed she had courage. She could not let him down.

This book is dedicated to all the women out there who no longer have the patience or desire to put up with any nonsense.

There is another possibly apocryphal story about the philosopher Jerry Fodor (he's the Yogi Berra of philosophy). Someone asked what his stream of consciousness was like as he wrote philosophy. His reply was that it mostly said, "Come on, Jerry, you can do it, Jerry, keep going, Jerry.

What, exactly, would you give up?

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

One had but to look at him to appreciate that he had been doomed from the cradle to end up in the Oval Office: that anyone else should aspire to be – or be – the Chief Executive was quite unthinkable.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

The Major Smiths of this world don't drive over the edge of a cliff. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer. The Major Smiths of this world don't fall off the roofs of cable cars. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer's future husband.

The boy who harnessed the wind

She shook her head. "I won't go." His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that as if you have a choice." "There is always a choice.

Your real dreams are the ones your dreamed far before you were old enough to understand just how complicated they were to accomplish. How you respond when you find out is part of your character.

He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Yall have to show me the fool who says dreams don't come true cause they do I LOVE YOU PHILIDELPHIA

We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us.