Quotes About Determination

not, they proceed to the next house.

Let the end come, however cruel; at least then we'll know whether we are to be the victors or the vanquished.

I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

It didn't happen overnight. I've struggled long and hard and shed many tears to become as independent as I am now.

Don't be modest and retiring, Anne. It will get you nowhere.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

No amor e na guerra vale tudo.

Thursday, 6 July, 1944 ... Quite honestly, I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to! This reply rather discouraged me. Easy? Does that mean that a lazy, deceitful life is an easy life? Oh no, that can't be true, it mustn't be true, people can so easily be tempted by slackness...and money.

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.

writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.

it may just be that you are developing a quiet doggedness. This is priceless. Perfectionism, on the other hand, will only drive you mad.

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.

I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.

writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do—you can either type or kill yourself.

We are going to save the world by repeatedly busting the dread that looms over us like a blimp, by pushing back our sleeves and distracting it with the next right thing and good works.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. I

Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems. Other

The only thing to do when the sense of dread and low self-esteem tells you that you are not up to this is to wear it down by getting a little work done every day. You really can do it, really can find these people inside you and learn to hear what they have to say.

You may feel a little as if writing a novel is like trying to level Mount McKinley with a dentist's drill.

Has been done. Can be done. Must be done...