Quotes About Determination

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

After spending my pre-teen years as the singer in a bluegrass band, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of high school and start homeschool, so I could take a job singing in the country show at Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood.

Women alone have to be smart, strong and durable. We don't bruise easy. And we can't waste time and energy feeling sorry for ourselves. We might want to collapse, but we don't. Probably no one would pick us up!" "You,

If you don't mind me saying so, you look kind of fragile for that kind of work." She laughed and her whole face brightened. "Is that so? Well, this fragile girl has cleaned up a lot of dumps and lifted more than her share of heavy stuff, Your Reverence." He cleared his throat. "It's Noah. Please. I'm not the pope." "I know that," she scoffed. "I was being funny." "Ah. And so you were," he admitted.

As banged up as she is, that's what most people would do. Even if she pulls through, there's no guarantee she'll be much of a dog." He stroked the dog's head and thought, No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.

You don't have to be in first place to feel like a winner, you just have to beat the thing, whatever it is, that makes you feel failure is inevitable." "So

It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up." "Your

big, flat rock face that looks like you shouldn't be able to find anything to hang on to, yet they slithered up to the top like lizards. What does it take to do something like that, Sully?" He swallowed a mouthful.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.

It took a lot to straighten your back like that, hold your head up, be the strength and not the victim.

When driven to the outhouse by sheer urgent need, she carried the big iron skillet. If that beast showed up again, teeth bared, she'd knock him into the middle of next week. She might not be a hunter, but she'd been a damn fine softball player in her day.

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the night, Charlene made the long ride

Esforzarse es obligatorio. Sufrir es opcional.

I'm the weak one, he thought dismally, and she's the one with the strength of a thousand soldiers.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: Not going all the way, and not starting.

He couldn't let her get away again, or he'd never be the same. She could push him back, be angry about his screwup, but he was going to keep coming at her until he had her attention. She was going to have to tell him, convincingly, that she didn't love him, and didn't want him in her life. That was the only way he'd let go. And he was done tiptoeing around the issue. He

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

I was in forever, not just until I didn't get my way.

my mother—a young woman with a passel of kids and no