Quotes About Determination

Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know! And I'd say, I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.

If you have to hit--hit low.

Face it, Gary told her kindly. You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.

She wanted an extra advantage today, more than she'd had in training with Raoul or knights like Jerel. When the trumpet blared, she told Peachblossom, Charge. Muscles bunched under her. The gelding flew at his top speed down the dirt lane, hooves thundering in packed dust. For those brief seconds Kel felt like an army of one. She loved no one so much as her horse.

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.

The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - learn to love. You have been given a hard road to walk. Love will ease it. Much depends on you, Alanna of Trebond. Do not fail me! - The Goddess

Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother, the woman said dryly. Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it, she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat

I know this will be hard, Arram. Do not be heroic. I have often done this on my own with Daleric's people. Sometimes I work here with two mastery students. I-- Two mastery students! Arram cried, as close to hysterics as he had ever been in his life. Then why not at least bring another instead of using only me? Ramasu raised his eyebrows until Arram caught his breath. Then he said, his voice kind and firm, Because I knew you would be enough.

The harder the goal, the more important it is

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from The Untouchables to you: At the end of your shift, go home alive. She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard--just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

Da says I make a whole loaf from pigeon crumbs.

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.

People with a good life would defend it more vigorously than people who were beaten down by their masters and their fates.

Me," she said at last. "You should pick me." "But you're a girl." It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. "So?" she demanded. "Even Captain Sklaw says I'll be a swordsman yet. I'm as good an archer as Alex, and he's a boy and a squire. I'm a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever—" "I'm glad you agree

She fixed her mind on stone in the soles of her feet and on the song of the mountains, and kept going

Gods of fire and ice, bless my new home, she whispered in Yamani. Keep my will burning as hot as the heart of the volcano, and as hard and implacable as a glacier.

There are all kinds of courage, you'll find yours.

All she had was herself. It would have to do.

If you are a man, you will do it." "Oh no, lady. Only if I am your notion of a man.

Shaina got to her feet and clenched her hands. Her eyes, chestnut-colored, almost copper in the fire gloom, were wide and full of hunger, but her mouth was set.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is ready to fight for your nation even when your nation isn't ready to fight for you.