Quotes About Determination

I thought you'd be pleased.' 'At the idea of anybody coming to take Meg away? No, thank you.' 'You'll feel better about it when somebody comes to take you away.' 'I'd like to see any one try it,' cried Jo, fiercely. 'So should I!' and Laurie chuckled at the idea.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —ALBERT CAMUS

Girls have to be dauntless," Mathilda said. "And twice as excellent

You just said you love them, Susannah," Helen said finally. "So you must ask yourself: what are you willing to do for them?

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.

It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimisim a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore you faith in yourself.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY.

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

It's been in my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.

I got up at six o'clock and dressed by lamplight. The fires would not yet be on, of course, and the house would be cold. But I would put on a heavy coat, sit on my feet to keep them from freezing, and with fingers so cramped I could scarcely hold the pen, I would write my stunt for the day.

It's been my experience that you nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will

Tears of disappointment would come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide poor, crumpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk. Deep down under all the discouragement and rebuff, I knew I would arrive there someday.

You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: 'Now I want to go this way.' I say: 'Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.' That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.