Quotes About Determination

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

If someone wanted to be with you, after all, they just made it happen.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live.

Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared out at the muddy blue of the endless sea, gulped in the air, lifted her chin, and decided that she could survive this. She could survive most things. It was nobody's right to be happy, after all.

If he has love, he will feel he can go on.

Who says you failed?" Dad stroked her hair back from her face. His expression was tender. "I'm just thinking of what I know about Will Traynor, what I know about men like him. And I'll say one thing to you. I'm not sure anyone in the world was ever going to persuade that man once he'd set his mind to something. He's who he is. You can't make people change who they are.

So once upon a time Ed met a girl who was the most optimistic person he had even know. A girl who wore flip-flops in the hope of spring. She seemed to bounce through life like Tigger; the things that would have felled most people didn't seem to touch her. Or if she did fall, she bounced right back. She fell again, plastered on a smile, dusted herself off, and kept going. He never could work out whether it was the single most heroic thing or the most idiotic thing he'd ever seen.

It's like he's determined not to see the good in anything.

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.

Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in control of your own life. And yet you act like you're permanently buffeted by events outside your control.

Course, you know that only happens till you learn to hit back harder.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE. Love, Will

C'mon Will! Let's give these fuckers something to talk about!" Suggestion on the part of a drunken Lou Clark, rooting for her beloved Will Traynor to advance his motorized wheelchair onto the dance floor, after the wedding ceremony between his former fiancé and his former best friend, while she plops herself onto his lap in her bright red dress and drapes her arms around him, his eyes staring straight at her cleavage!

There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth has gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.

The young are right to be fearless, she reminded herself. Remember yourself at that age.

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire.

but his smile was slow and wide. "I don't know, Clark. Some people just won't be told.

You had reminded me of my own strength, of how much I had left in me with which to fight.

Trage deine Ringelstrumpfhosen mit Stolz. Führe ein unerschrockenes Leben. Fordere dich heraus. Lebe einfach.

But we're terribly proud of you, you know.' 'For what?' she says, blowing her nose. 'I failed, Dad. Most people think I shouldn't have even tried.' Her father pulls her to him. He smells of red wine and a part of her life that seems a million years ago. 'Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself.

Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will.