Quotes About Determination

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!" Master

Lessa lay in the straw of the redolent cheeseroom she shared as sleeping quarters with the other kitchen drudges.

Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition

Living was struggling to do something impossible—to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!

I began the piling of words, to dig myself out to dare myself

Somewhere a man answers courage with courage

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want.

He received in essence the same answer from every other shop he tried. No one recognized his description of Hester, and none of them had sold digitalis to any member of the Farraline household, or indeed to anyone not known to them personally. He pursued the other sources of information, the public house, the street peddlers and crossing sweepers, the errand and delivery boys and the news vendors, but all he learned was very general gossip that seemed to serve no purpose.

She has a kind of courage I find myself admiring more with each day. She is determined to be happy, to see what is good and to make the best of what is not.

But he was too proud and too ambitious to be a coward. He had grasped what he wanted without flinching.

humiliation of the past behind her, and try again?

Nothing worth having was gained without courage.

If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want. I

To be beaten was one thing, to surrender was another—and intolerable.

I do not need anyone to lead me astray! I am perfectly capable of going on my own!

I may go alone, Mr. Rathbone, but I am perfectly sure I would not find the ground uninhabited when I got there!

rare courage, and a force of character

You're a dreamer, Charlotte. There is no man who won't make you wretched some time or other. I think George will have more to compensate for it than most, and I mean to marry him. I won't allow you to prevent me.