Quotes About Determination

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

I love you!" he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green."I love you, okay? I'm not some hopeless retard you pull along behind you because you feel sorry for him! I love you and I'm going to prove it!

Just … isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Why don't you light that candle ?

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Execution is the chariot of genius.