Quotes About Determination

You're not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don't think you are. But you'll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.

Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.

We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like the bastards we are.

People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed

It was not that she was a better-tempered person, she decided detachedly. It was that her anger had learned a terrible patience. What good was wasting words on a petty and tyrannical second mate? He was a little yapping dog. She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. One waited until one could snap his spine with a single blow.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.

Useless to worry until we find ourselves blocked, Nighteyes pointed out. If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

I don't think they're coming. Why must I stand here in the wind and rain?' 'Because it pleases me', Kennit snapped at him. Wintrow thought to intervene. 'You can have my cloak, if you like'. he offered. The Satrap scowled. 'It's dripping wet. What good would that do me?' 'You could be wetter', Kennit snarled.

Don't think of the obstacles that lie between now and the moment when we confront him." The ship spoke in a low, soft voice. "Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, anyone of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.

Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

Ahora lo entiendo. Tenía que decírmelo para espolearme. Tengo que dejar de comportarme como si hubiera un mañana donde enmendar las cosas. Todo debe hacerse ahora, de inmediato, sin pensar en el futuro. Sin creer en el futuro. Sin temer el futuro.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

He has had his wish. He will not bow his head.

I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.

Nor do I need your pity. I accept my current fortune. I've seen my situation change before, and I will see it change again. I don't need you to change it.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.

That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.' She smiled. 'That is all . You are right. And that is all that All ever is.

Lost a fight?' he'd asked, still out of breath. 'The fight isn't over until you win it

It felt good, she suddenly decided, to set herself to a physical task. For this small time, at least, she could see the results of her effort and her will.

My head cleared, and suddenly I had heart to fight again, to ignore pain and damage, to fight! I swear I saw myself, face purpled from strangling, the rich blood streaming and soaking and the smell so maddening.