Quotes About Determination

no excuses. I accept full responsibility

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. —MARGARET THATCHER At

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What would fighting like a girl look like if it was done right?

It takes the heart of a warrior to pursue a lion with a lamb in its mouth.

Winners never quit, quitters never win

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury.

So let's catch this son of a bitch, so I can return to my classes, and finish up my degree. Then I'll join law enforcement, neglect my own family, and the cycle will be complete.

For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the good guys always won in the end. Zero or hero. A part of Telly clearly wanted to be the hero. The brother who'd saved his sister. The troubled teen who, according to his PO, was trying to do better.

Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.

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Lisa Gardner

go one of two ways—an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

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I was so sure Livia was the missing link. Knowing about her involvement now, you'd load up these videos, we'd spy her hat, her face, something and kapow! All the pieces of the puzzle would fall into place.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'