Quotes About Determination

I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did

Get back on that bike.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. 'You swim' is a philosophy? He shrugged. Better than 'you sink', right?

No creo en el fracaso porque al decir que hemos fracasado, ya estamos admitiendo que lo hemos intentado. Y todo el que lo intenta no fracasa. Los que fracasan, en mi opinión, son los que ni siquiera lo intentan. Los que se quedan sentados en el sofá y se quejan y gimotean y esperan que el mundo cambie para ellos.

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

How fast were you? Wes asked me. I said, Not that fast. You mean you couldn't... fly? he said, smiling at me.

Make your choices well, my mom had said. It was what she thought she hadn't done, what she hoped above everything I'd do differently. On the flip side, though, there was Clyde, telling me that there were second chances, even-and especially- when you've given up all hope of them. But maybe, when a life and summer was going so fast, you couldn't wait for fate to punch the time card. You had to do it yourself.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn't already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

I don't think I like you." "A common reaction," he replied. "I'll win you over. Eventually." She

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

Maybe it was a stupid exercise, and you couldn't grow things in winter. But there was something I liked about he idea of those seeds, buried so deep, having at least a chance to emerge. Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked so hard, all alone, to grow.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken." I wanted to say he was lucky he even had a choice. That for most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

all I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, tight, and held on

It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes, we don't even know what that is.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

I was distracted, thinking about what she'd said, until she got to this last part. Sherman? I said. She nodded. That's John and Craig's friend. He's visiting from Shreveport. Sherman from Shreveport? I said. This is the guy you're determined I go out with? You can't judge a book by its cover! she snapped. When I slid my eyes toward Forbidden , she grabbed it up, shoving it back under the bed. You know what I mean. Sherman might be very nice.

As I crossed the lobby to the boardwalk, all I could think was that regardless of the performance I'd just witnessed, it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

It's kind of impressive...you know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway.