Quotes About Determination

I asked Pike, "Are you afraid?" He shook his head. "Would you be afraid at midnight if we were alone?" He walked a moment. "I have the capacity for great violence.

Pike hung up. He knew he couldn't convince Darko with more talk. Darko would have to convince himself, and now he would either show or he wouldn't. Cole

I gave it to him from the beginning. I had told it so many times to so many cops I thought about making mimeographed copies and handing them out. When I told the part about Nobu Ishida, Jack Ellis said, "Holy shit.

Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat -- and frequently drop the hat himself.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

For I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep.

Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love.

Holding the curve of one position, counting an endless repetition.

but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.

If I can with confidence say That still for another day, Or even another year, I will be there for you, my dear, It will be because, though small As measured against the All, I have been so instinctively thorough About my crevice and burrow.

But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.