Quotes About Determination

Survival is your strength not your shame.

If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice.

You dream too much, child. Our kind, we make our way with strong backs and closed mouths.

Lead the way. Just remember that I'm not a very good climber. Not very good? Beetledown laughed. Like a dog with one leg, to put truth to it.

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Don't puke on my scene, ninja boy.

The only rule of survival in a situation like this: Shut your mouth and keep moving.

Sabin get his way. He wanted Kovac to

But that's what bravery is: to be afraid and do what you have to do anyway. You can't have courage without fear.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," comes from ancient Persia.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs, Neal told Kel at lunch.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

I told Ersken, Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today, he said, as good humored as always. Today we're doing to jump.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)

Excuse me, she said politely. But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.