Quotes About Determination

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think?

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

No bounce, no play.

I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. "You came!" Jake shouted. "You really came!" "I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head.

There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl, her father had told her once. Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing... or ye can decide not to decide. That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.

The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. It isn't man or God. It's something...in the brain.

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy, she told herself complacently. The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can't.

It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.

After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

I want to go to war, Eddie Dean said calmly. You don't know what you're talking about, Roland said, but you're going to find out. Eddie nodded. They went to their war.