Quotes About Determination

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

Deserve Victory

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

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Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself.

Your life belongs to you alone. Rise up and live it! ~Richard Rahl

Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon.

It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don't know how to do it.

And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor

Sometimes making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation.

You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.

Talga Vassternich!

My mother always said that if you predicted rain long enough, sooner or later you would get wet and be proven right.

She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde—by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.

War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

to think of the solution—and not the problem.