Quotes About Determination

I won't let him retreat from me. We've come too far. I'll fight for us even if it's him I have to fight.

Leaning down, he whispers for my ears alone. "Prove them wrong.

I want you," he said starkly, the barest quiver in his hoarse voice. "Me and you. Together." He drew in a deep breath, his broad chest lifting. "But I can't chase you forever.

Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.

He stiffens against me, pain written all over the mess of a face. He grabs my face in his hands. Holds me. "It's not over. We're not through, Jacinda." His eyes blister, glitter darkly. "I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.

No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.

But she wasn't a fool either. Better than anyone she knew how easy it was to become a victim. It didn't mean you were weak or stupid. It didn't mean you had done anything wrong. More often than not it meant you were unlucky enough to run smack into a giant douchebag bent on all manner of assholery.

If she did not like her fate, it was up to her to change it.

Is that what you would do?" He stared at me and I waited, wondering why his answer mattered so much. "I wouldn't have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute you decided I wanted you. I wouldn't leave until I convinced you that you were mine.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

If someone else has done it then I can do it too. If no one has then I can be the first. If I can do it so can you

If someone else has done it then I can do it too. If no one has then I can be the first. If I can do it so can you" ? Soraya, Book of Spells

Determined now her tomb to build, Her ample skirt with stones she filled, And dropped a heap on Carron-more; Then stepped one thousand yards to Loar, And dropped another goodly heap; And then with one prodigious leap, Gained carrion-beg; and on its height Displayed the wonders of her might.

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will