Quotes About Determination

It's nobody's responsibility to save me but mine.

Karen Marie Moning

I can't not misstep. I have feet.

Heavy stuff, I know. I think I've finally graduated from the don't-knows that don't know to the don't-knows that do. Barrons had security cameras in the garage. He'd just given me a tape of myself breaking into it.

Dude, we're talking immortality. There ain't no price too high!

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again!

Nothing had been easy for me in Dublin. I no longer expected it to be, nor would I waste time complaining when it could be put to better use moving forward.

What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Should any of us be desperate enough to find our own solution and dare to take action, we would have been pronounced to be the lowest of all disobedient wives

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

you. Can you tell us your name, give us the name of

Over my dedad body, was his first thought. His second? No, over Carl's.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

Over my dead body was his first thought. His second? No, Over Carls.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

You had to really cultivate an ending. To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Wait, that's your idea? That's your expert advice? You're going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You're going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.

I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.

Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be.

At some point you are going to want to give up. Consider this a reminder: Don't you dare.