Quotes About Determination

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat. It's the same for thinking, writing, and life.

We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was. You guys happy? I said. The kids smiled at me like I was a dog chasing my tail, sweet but stupid, and looked away.

My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another.

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

True love, I said. And yet I'm sticking around unreasonably and knowing it's impossible because who knows? I want to find out. I live hopefully.

Tal com ho veig jo, el que hem decidit nosaltres, les dones, és que volem tres coses, i que hi tenim dret. Quines?, pregunta la Greta. Volem seguretat per als nostres fills, diu la Mariche. Se li escapa alguna llàgrima i li costa de parlar, però continua. Ens volem mantenir fermes en la nostra fe. Volem poder pensar.

we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

You're a small thing and you must learn to fight.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't me you stop telling the story.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker and then a painter and then a tiny-ceramic-figure maker. None of it panned out. She'd be full of enthusiasm at first, full of big ideas and energy and drive, but it would all gradually evaporate and disappear. She could never maintain the momentum or the concentration or the confidence she needed to get anything done.

Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?

Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

What is false about hope?

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. I gave up, I whispered. Don't give up, she whispered back.

Believe, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything.

Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.