Quotes About Determination

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

WHAT THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE. YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST OF THE TIME.

Cardiff thinks I'm tied up with them? I've half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves

it'll come down to more shoe leather on my part,

I'm not a spy. I'm not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I'm pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,

Get the motherfucker. Stay the hell away from him, but go get him. It's what you do now. And if

Vital organs and arteries matter, but so does the will to live.

Life is decided by thousands of external and internal forces.

I'm not scared," she says defiantly. "If the devil wanted me, he would have come for me when he got Chelsea.

Actually, I killed him in a moment of serene calm. It was what had to be done. I made a calculated decision and pulled the trigger. The risk of him getting away or slipping through the system was too great.

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

FUCK THAT NOISE. I'M GOING TO RIP HIM TO PIECES.

I never saved anything for the swim back.

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

You wanted to know how I did it? That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.

Nothing is lost while courage remains.

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

He had that ruthless side without which great affairs cannot be handled.

This is no time for ease and comfort,' he said in reference to the extension of rationing. 'It is the time to dare and endure.

This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

When General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was in charge at Saint-Omer (77 letters) reported that it was impossible to embark the entire force in twenty-four hours, Napoleon expostulated, 'Impossible, sir! I am not acquainted with the word; it is not in the French language, erase it from your dictionary.

Politicians rise by toils and struggles. They expect to fall; they hope to rise again.