Quotes About Determination

I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

When my father saw my bloody elbows and knees, he tried to talk me out of flying. "People aren't cut out for it," he explained. "Our bodies are designed all wrong." I didn't believe him. He was the one who had told me about bumblebees, how their wings were too flimsy to support their fat bodies; yet, in the summer, they were everywhere, buzzing impossibly by.

We used to call her Little, Little come here, we'd say. Little, unhand the cat, but then one day she won't let us, "I am big," she says and her face is stormy.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.

Get on with the business of living," Ernest told me. "You don't have any other choice.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

I'm not here to be liked. -Batman,Dark victory.

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.

La valeur d'un homme n'est pas dans la manière dont il tombe, mais dont il se relève !

Bu sana ders olsun, evlat. Kazanaca??ndan emin olmad???n sürece ringe ç?kma.

Jeremiah Curtin

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

reaching for the 'Yes

Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. "Sand" might be a loose metaphor for "point where I'm almost dead and filled with the kind of regret you have to actively forget in order to continue on as a human being.

One man against a corrupt system and I knew I could win! And Hindsight would like to point out I wasn't even on the really hard drugs yet. I'd

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand.

But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future.

If the enemy sends it's Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause.