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Quotes About Determination

You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers
~ Robert A. Caro
his congressional career almost before it began. Herman
~ Robert A. Caro
What one man can do, another man can do.
~ Robert A. Glover
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To die trying is the proudest humans thing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Because revolution—armed uprising—requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die—or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. Jill Boardman encountered her personal challenge - and accepted it - at 3:47.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
But you don't have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan—make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing—the only thing!—that can strike terror in the heart of a good platoon sergeant is to find that he's working for a boss who can't make up his mind.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
C'mon you apes, you wanna' live forever?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
~ A hero must hero.
Good luck, boys! This time we take 'em!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Why it can't be done is not acceptable; I must discover how it can be done.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
nos morituri vos spernimus (we who are about to die, scorn you)
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Çaban?n kendilerinden gelmesi gerektiÄŸi fikri... ve yaÅŸad?klar? tüm sorunlar?n kendilerinden kaynakland??? gerçeÄŸi... kabul etmedikleri ya da edemeyecekleri bir ÅŸeydi.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?
~ Robert A. Heinlein