Quotes About Determination

With a demon wanting to devour me, I was feeling inclined to be devout . . .

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

I'd want to. If you want, I want.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

But none of that matters at all." His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, "It's just—a way to go. There isn't only one way to go." I waved at his notes. "You're trying to find a road where there isn't one. It's like—it's gleaning in the woods," I said abruptly. "You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.

I've got quite well-developed willpower when it comes to doing necessary work. I just have very little willpower when it comes to indulging petty resentment:

I worked very hard after that. I took as much of Da's work as I could. I didn't want to make a row of dead babies and die.

Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

I wasn't going through. I wasn't going through until everyone was out.

Decidí que Orion debía morir cuando me salvó la vida por segunda vez.

Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through.

The point being that we still needed a better strategy for graduation than Wait and see if El can keep her big-girl pants on, and here I was whinging on about how nice it would be for me to do something unbelievably stupid instead, like Orion.

Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.

in the same way you know perfectly well you ought to stop reading and go to bed and you'll feel hideously groggy in the morning if you don't, and yet you keep going.

Sabes? Es casi admirable —dijo al cabo de un momento, con la voz menos temblorosa—. Estás medio muerta y sigues siendo la persona más borde que he conocido nunca. Y por cierto: de nada, otra vez.

they were wild-eyed and terrified even in their courage.

No one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

I'd been ready to go down to the graduation hall and fight for my life; I'd been ready to fight for the lives of everyone I knew, for the chance of a future. I didn't need this much more to lose.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing

Laurence reached up to wipe the grime from his face, and finding his hand come away red with gore felt back to where his scalp hung open and wet. Help me fold it up again, he said. A head wound is always a bloody nuisance; but unless my brains are out in the air, I suppose it will not kill me.

It is inconceivable to the dominant culture that it should respect as a political allegiance, as deep as any ethnic or racial pride, a woman's determination to show her loyalty—in the face of a beauty myth as powerful as myths about white supremacy—to her age, her shape, her self, her life.

Great Minds Quotes ?@GreatestQuotes The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.