Quotes About Determination

Lai Tsin immediately set about his work.

Your choice requires courage, determination, and commitment—and personal ownership.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

With great difficulty we hunted the dog-banditti into their caves of the city, and bribed them into giving back their victim. Money was the least thing to think of in such case; I would have given a thousand pounds if I had had them in my hand. The audacity of the wretched men was marvellous. They said that they had been 'about stealing Flush these two years,' and warned us plainly to take care of him for the future.

My spring is broken, and a separate exertion is necessary for the lifting up of each — and then it falls down again. I never felt so before: there is no wonder that I should feel so now. Nevertheless, I don't give up much to the pernicious languor — the tendency to lie down to sleep among the snows of a weary journey — I don't give up much to it. Only I find it sometimes at the root of certain negligences — for instance, of this toward you.

No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody's ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn't already made up my mind to say.

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow's problems she'd take care of tomorrow.

one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.

Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don't believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

You'd never break this one. You'd never even bend her. She'd die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.

The force of will to defy Richard Baines and wrest his own greatest sorcery away from him? I can't even best the man in a verbal jousting match? What think I that I can take control of a sorcery in which I am only the catalyst, the sacrifice?

Unhelmed by her remote masters, she limped along the beach, dragging one fused limb.

A warrior kind of finality fills me with an emotion I almost don't recognize.

Se companions hadn't found the captives, or any sign, on the fleeing barge that the Company humen used a village-heart. They had taken Caeti, and se would not leave Caeti in their dry, rough hands. So se had attached self to the humen leader's heliocopter as it fled the overrun barge. And se clung there, water slashing in se brood pouch, se hand and toefingers wrapped in a deathgrip on wet metal until bone ran with traced flame and digits cramped in claws.

I'm an M.D. A shitty one, but sometimes shitty is better than nothing. I'll do what I have to do.

I'll say this Wainwright. When she chooses a side, she doesn't screw around.

The wall stood firm behind him; his hands flattened on the stones, but they gave him no purchase and less strength.

The flesh of her palms broke open on the steel. But that steel yielded and, by inches, the door-thicker than her waist-cracked open. She dropped one arm around Rien and pulled her through and in.

Will is for England," he said with a tired shrug. "And I am for Will.

Swing hard; follow through to the other side of whatever you are swinging at. Zanya Farweather had been swinging at my soul.