Quotes About Determination

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

It's not over until you win

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

I didn't know you were a techie, Mulder.' said Scully... 'I used to fool around with ham radios when I was a kid,' Mulder said, not looking up from his work. 'Let me guess why,' said Scully. 'Ever succeed in making contact with a spaceship?'... 'No,' said Mulder. 'But it wasn't from lack of trying.

Mulder looked down at his partner. 'Please get better,' he said. 'I'm going to need all the help I can get.' He might have been crazy, but he thought he saw her head give a tiny nod. He'd have to wait and see.

Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery.

I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.

Leslie Margolis

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying Come up again, dear! I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

But it's no use now, thought poor Alice, to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

Go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless

I think I could, if I only know how to begin.

So she brushed away her tears, and went on, as cheerfully as she could.

and when she (went back1) to the table2 for it, she found she could5 (not possibly3) reach4 it: Sie ging1a zum Tisch2 zurück1b, um es zu holen, sah aber, daß sie es unmöglich3 erreichen4 konnte5

not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through