Quotes About Determination

Dar's been through enough in his life, and his legs are only a small part of it. Don't play with him, Cassie. If you're not serious, leave him the hell alone." "And if I am serious?" Sean smiled ruefully. "Then you're in for the fight of your life.

Is that what you think?" He considered that for a moment before he said, "I think you're Chase's sister, and that says a lot. But I also know Dar's been through enough in his life, and his legs are only a small part of it. Don't play with him, Cassie. If you're not serious, leave him the hell alone." "And if I am serious?" Sean smiled ruefully. "Then you're in for the fight of your life.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

How much you improve is up to you.

Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin.

patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

Everyone keeps telling me what I can't do, but they're wrong. The only thing I can't do is nothing.

My life has been so universally shitty that either I lose it or improve it, I'm not really bothered which, just so long as it doesn't carry on the way it's been so far.

like a cartwheel over a hedgehog,

It's about keeping the peace," said Rasso from the livery. His choice of words made Marzo want to smile. Rasso had borrowed the phrase from him and, like any man in the colony who borrowed anything, he seemed determined to use it till it fell apart before he was called on to give it back.

Fine," I said. "Go back to the Dogs and wash some dishes." She left without a word.

Farming can't be hard, or farmers couldn't do it.

In the end he came to the conclusion that it was like being chased by his own shadow; it could never actually catch him, but it'd never give up trying.

So, being Artavasdus, instead of diving for cover and shitting himself like any normal human being, or me, he stood there, watched carefully and took notes.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.

Upon his return to New York, Robert opened his mail to learn that Ernest Rutherford had rejected him. "Rutherford wouldn't have me," Oppenheimer recalled. "He didn't think much of Bridgman and my credentials were peculiar.

Other girls carried tasers or pepper spray for safety. Rosa had bought herself a stapler in a hardware store on the corner of Baltic and Clinton Streets. Her thinking was simple. An electric shock is nasty but leaves no marks. With her method, though, she could put two or three staples into any attacker's body. Then he'd have to stop and decide whether to tangle with her or start getting the staples out of his skin.

If they [won], it would only be because they didn't forget what they were. Who they were. And that it was worth it to fight just for that.

I may look small, but my bark AND my bite is BIG. - STRONG by Kailin Gow

Bravery is going forth despite the fear. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow