Quotes About Determination

There was no easy path to what was right, what was truth.

Whatever my jaded heart feels, my instinctive desire to survive is much stronger.

You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!

He was not running away, but running onwards.

I will slither from his grasp. I will be like the Caradorean mist. If someone punches me, they will hit only air. I cann't be broken by force. I will bend and twist and float away. If he cuts me with a sword, I will laugh. If he cuts me with words, I will simply shrug. He will laugh at what happens to me at the fire pits and I will smile and shrug. It doesn't matter.

Life would become difficult again for a while, but I knew I'd have the strength to face it.

We have to take him soon, Ninka, or rather I do.

You have lost control and will do whatever you can to salvage your position. This is why you are so calm in the face of all that's happened today.

There was something about the swagger in her walk that alerted him. What was Sofia's agenda?

He wanted to suceed in life, at whatever cost.

Where had the delicate silent child gone, who'd been more like a mute mermaid stranded on land than a human being? What he saw now was a determined young woman who despite the passion of her words spoke clearly and firmly.

I want him, Taz. He escaped from me, because I wasn't prepared for what happened at Little Moor. Now, I know what I'm dealing with, and I can handle it. This isn't over until I deliver Shemyaza, alive or dead, to High Crag.

Don't think me a mouse, she thought, or even a little wren. I will discover for myself what kind of animal I am.

She had to reach. She had to want it more than she'd ever wanted anything. She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.

Strickland Gillilan

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is acting in spite of fear.

If we'd just been fighting their army without the general, we might, just MIGHT have had a chance. But with him...?' The big man shrugged, then stood to leave. 'But that's defeatist talk. And I've got a fyrd to help train. I'll see you tonight at dinner, Maggie.

Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.

I can assure you that frostbite to any part of that animal's anatomy wouldn't delay us for a second. If she was unfit to travel I'd personally poleaxe her," Thirrin said with venom. Then she added as an afterthought, "And I'd enjoy it!

How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.

Steel squared her shoulders. "Ladies, and gentlemen, are are no' at home to Mr Fuckup today. Who are we no' at home to?" The response wasn't much more than an embarrassed murmur. "Mr Fuckup." "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHO ARE WE NO' AT HOME TO?" Better this time: "Mr Fuckup." "ONE MORE TIME!" They bellowed it out: "WE ARE NOT AT HOME TO MR FUCKUP!" "Damn right we're no'." She smiled, nodded. "Now get out there and catch me those bloody killers.

But in a fit of inspiration he'd fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin.

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