Quotes About Determination

When I take to my bed, it's good to know whether I'm sick or just lazy.

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it." Diane's mantra.

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body—a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out.

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

violent little girls.

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, How do you write a book? The answer is, you just write.

All the women here walked as if they were pushing against a monstrous headwind.

I'd go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.

Just got to keep on keeping on.

Little Libby Day just discovered her angle. Call it survival instinct, or call it what it was: greed.

Fake it, until you make it ..

The woman got shit done, and she was not one to abandon a project (say, her fixer-upper husband, for instance), even if she decided she didn't like it.

Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

My morning breath warmed the pillow, and I changed the subject in my mind. Today was not a day for second-guessing or regret, it was a day for doing.

But in a way, Libby, this presents you with a really interesting new phase of your life. I mean, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I could tell this was supposed to be charming, but it brought a burst of rage up in me. I didn't want to be anything, that was the fucking point.

the urgent hopefulness of a seriously underdog politician with a lot of true believers refusing to give up.

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

That easy, huh?" "You just have to decide to do it and then do it," she said. "Discipline. Follow through. Like anything.

That easy huh? You just have to decide to do it and then do it, she said. Discipline. Follow through. Like anything. You never understood that.

see a 3 and an 8. (He said.) And then work

Of course, motivating yourself has little to do with energy — and everything to do with decisions. Choosing to do something, especially if it seems difficult, might be hard. You need to decide whether the task is worth the effort.