Quotes About Determination

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.

She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn't afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.

Two more years: then I'll get my diploma and I'm done.' 'No, don't ever stop: I'll give you the money, you should keep studying.' I gave a nervous laugh, then said, 'Thanks, but at a certain point school is over.' 'Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.' She got up, took off her underpants and bra, said, 'Come on, help me, otherwise I'll be late.

Si me veo expuesta a los lagartos, combatiré contra los lagartos. Si me veo expuesta a las hormigas, combatiré contra las hormigas. Si me veo expuesta a los ladrones, combatiré contra los ladrones. Si me veo expuesta a mí misma, lucharé contra mí.

I always have to prove that I can be better

Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.

My job, I thought, is to demonstrate that one can remain healthy. Demonstrate it to myself, no one else. If I am exposed to lizards, I will fight the lizards. If I am exposed to ants, I will fight the ants. If I am exposed to thieves, I will fight the thieves. If I am exposed to myself, I will fight myself.

I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.

I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down. We

I would have don't anything for her, on that morning of reconciliation: run away from home, leave the neighborhood, sleep in farmhouses, feed on roots, descend into the sewers through the grates, never turn back, not even if it was cold, not even if it rained.

I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they're going and why.

Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.

So? Better to give up? No, the master answers, you don't have to throw everything away: it's arduous to speak truthfully, but you do your best.

I observed her, amazed and disappointed, and determined to not be like her, to become truly different and so show her that it was useless and cruel to frighten us with her repeated 'You will never ever ever see me again'; instead she should have changed for real, or left home for real, left us, disappeared. How I suffered for her and for myself, how ashamed I was to have come out of the belly of such an unhappy person.

Io sono l'otto di spada, io sono la vespa che punge, io sono la serpe scura. lo sono l'animale invulnerabile che attraversa il fuoco e non si brucia.

Mi dicevo ogni giorno: sono quello che sono e non posso fare altro che accettarmi; sono nata cosí, in questa cittá, con questo dialetto, senza soldi; daró quello che posso dare, mi prenderó quello che posso prendere, sopporteró ció che c'é da sopportare.

Svakog dana sam sebi ponavljala: to sam što sam, i nema mi druge nego da se s tim pomirim; takva sam ro?ena, u ovom gradu, sa ovim dijalektom, u besparici; da?u od sebe ono što mogu, uze?u ono što mogu, podne?u ono što se mora podneti.

how much work I've done and what a long road I've traveled. At every step I could have given in and yet I didn't.

Really, go ahead." "No.

Se uno non prova, non cambia niente