Quotes About Determination

If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten.

I want something for myself, Grania was thinking, staring at her folded and clenched hands.

Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost.

down, rousing Priestly Morrison from the depths of his seat, where he had sunk so low that only the top of his hat was visible. He

Maybe, like my parents and grandparents, I can trust myself to be a mom without a reference library to tell me how. Maybe I don't need magazines, television of the internet to tell me how. And maybe most of all I don't need marketing campaigns designed to make money off my good intentions to tell me how. Maybe I know how. Or, by God, I'll figure it out.

It's not that kind of game, Han, she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already. The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can.

The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.

Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

Nothing, snapped Howell, that a man can imagine is impossible!

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

No, I've been calm all my life! If I don't do something, it's gonna kill me!

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

It takes nerve to walk down the street when you fall between the cracks.

I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.

You could say I'm a cat with nine lives. As long as there's mice to catch, I intend to keep hunting.

Throughout her career, Catherine seems to have believed that simply by reiterating her demands over and over she could either convince her opponents of the correctness of her position or overwhelm them until they conceded to her wishes.

If one can, anyone can. If two can, you can, too!

Never Give up, never surrender.

emphatically. "But even so, I don't suppose we would have

Stop calling me resilient. I'm not resilient. Because every time you say, 'Oh, they're resilient,' you can do something else to me." –Tracie Washington, New Orleans-based civil rights attorney, 2010

You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true.

I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something

He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-My father's a wood-cutter, I said- adOf axe-swinging lummocks! he snarled.

Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham. — Temeraire