Quotes About Determination

You might just be able to make it, Alex," he whispered, to give her strength. "And you might just be able to stop me," she said, returning it.

I get up slowly, quietly, and creep to the bathroom. I turn the water on full and step in without waiting for the hot to kick in. The tub is cold against my skin. I reach for the soap and a washcloth and rub myself all over. Hard. I scrub and scrub until the water warms up and rises over my ankles, my shins, my knees. I scrub until my skin feels raw and the water is so hot it stings against my skin.

She knew she should be grateful to have a job at all. It took her two years of subbing before she finally landed this one. She couldn't risk losing it. She turned the handle slowly, pushed the door forward as if it was a giant boulder blocking the opening to a dark cave. She felt, for a moment, like Polyphemus returning to a cave of sheep. It wasn't the first time she felt like a monster.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not.

I want to run so much sometimes my body aches with longing more than the pain from my leg.

Ah, para não se ter medo é que se vai à raiva.

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.

Success doesn't depend on your past or your present. Success begins when you are willing to do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

It is some accomplishment to suffer fear, but to plod on nonetheless. There is some pride in survival.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

She shoved her can right under his chin. "Don't mess with seniors," she growled at him.

Elden started toward me, "I think that's enough!" The man I almost knocked down bolted from his chair and shouted, "Let her speak!" Yield, rat boy!

And I suddenly understand what to do when bad things come. You don't hide, you don't look away; you get right up on them, you take the reins and you ride.

Let me tell you something about sad days. They're just part of life, but the best thing you can do on the happy days or on the sad ones is to do what you do best with everything you've got.

You're going to fall down in this life—everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.

I think hope is just about the best thing a person can have