Quotes About Determination

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

The only way round is through.

FIVE-STEP SUCCESS FORMULA Determine what you really want. Set a specific goal to obtain it. To be effective, this goal must include a specific time frame and plan for its accomplishment. The goal should also be written down and studied regularly. Gain knowledge about your goal—listen to tapes, talk to experts, go to seminars to learn about it. Associate with people who share your goals and attitudes while avoiding those who don't. Don't stop until you get it.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.

The suicide wants the very thing that a coward fears.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen,

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.

He's the turd that won't flush," as Strike put it to Lucy,

Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered towards Hazlitt's Hotel. She was tall enough to hold easily. He had never fancied very small women. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he known how much Strike had liked it.

in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life's course.

Enough, he told his tired, hyperactive brain. Enough. And by the same power of will that in the army had enabled him to fall instantly asleep on bare concrete, on rocky ground, on lumpy camp beds that squeaked rusty complaints about his bulk whenever he moved, he slid smoothly into sleep like a warship sliding out on dark water.

Robert Galbraith

Bestigui, who was five feet six inches at the most, had pushed his way out from behind his desk now; as unafraid of the enormous Strike as a pit bull whose yard has been invaded by a Rottweiler.

Robin remained quite still in front of her dressing table, staring down at the box containing her wedding shoes, thinking. She saw the risks plainly spread beneath her, like the rocks and raging waters beneath a tightrope walker's feet.

Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?