Quotes About Determination

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True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

True courage is facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.' She

make." He bit off a chunk of the dry meat

He got to the point. No idle questions about me, or you, or what was going on. He had found the thing he could do and come to do it. I like that in a man. Knowing what he can do, and doing it.

One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

when all the things in my life seem to collide and contradict each other, I pick one set of facts and believe those, no matter what." I lifted my eyes and met his as I asked him, "Do you blame me?

Cold isn't so bad. Cold can only kill you if you stand still. Just keep moving.

I went from the practice courts still bearing every problem that I had brought there with me, but buoyed with the idea that perhaps I possessed the wherewithal to face them.

It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then," she replied sweetly. "That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it.

The Outislanders have a word for that courage. Finblead, they call it, the last blood, and they believe that a special fortitude resides in the final blood that remains in any person before they fall. According to tales, only then can one find and use that sort of courage.

Accept the discipline, live up to the task.

One can ignore pain. But when the body invokes weakness, determination is useless.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.

Know your heart before you do, Fitz," he added. "If you've nothing to offer her, let her go. Are you crippled? Only if you decide so. But if you're determined that you're a cripple now, then perhaps you've no right to go and seek her out.

Especially then," she replied sweetly. "That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost.

On regarde souvent comme des fous les hommes de passion et les visionnaires

The axe is his weapon." Verity nodded slowly, "And he is mine.

A fierce resolve that we would not lose what we had now to what we could not have tomorrow.

shall." I think I finally guessed then what

I lay down to sleep with the resolve that I would not let Galen deceive me any longer, nor persuade me to deceive myself.

She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.