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Quotes About Determination

Darcy shook her head. "I thought it would be wonderful to have Calvin this close, but it's not. I can't get past this thing I have for him. I've tried and tried, dated other men, but none of them measure up or make me feel like he does. I have made up my mind to be single forever and dote on Sophie." Darcy shrugged. "Why couldn't you sleep?
~ Carolyn Brown
He raised an eyebrow. "You plan whatever you want. I'll be
~ Carolyn Brown
But a southern woman holds her head high and does not run from her problems, no matter if she's walking in tall cotton or deep manure She remembered Roxie's words.
~ Carolyn Brown
Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.
~ Carolyn Brown
And you can use that bad experience as a crutch to hobble around on for the rest of your life, or you can get over it.
~ Carolyn Brown
But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into
~ Carolyn Brown
If you want to wallow in self pity, then do so. Just admit that you are where you want to be. Don't be blaming everyone else for you being there because you are tough enough to crawl out of it.
~ Carolyn Brown
We all just get a day at a time. It's up to us whether we fight the demons that plague us or if we give in to them.
~ Carolyn Brown
Even in his absence, Tate had managed to remind her of his concern and caring. With determination, she set aside the unease that had plagued her this day.
~ Carolyn Davidson
Nancy fell so hard that the breath was knocked from her, but she struggled to her feet.
~ Carolyn Keene
As Nancy started back to the driveway she caught sight of a small leather-covered book lying a few feet from the doghouse. Eagerly Nancy snatched it up.
~ Carolyn Keene
One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there.
~ Carolyn Keene
CHAPTER I The Rescue NANCY DREW, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible.
~ Carolyn Keene
Nancy zipped across the street and into a photocopy shop. "Hi. I want you to blow something up," she said to the clerk. "This is a copy shop, not a terrorist headquarters," said the young man behind the counter. Then he laughed with his entire thin body. "I never get tired of that joke," he said.
~ Carolyn Keene
Why not go for the best! Driver—take us to Trump Tower!
~ Carolyn Keene
It means this isn't over.
~ Carolyn Keene
CHAPTER I The Rescue NANCY DREW, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue
~ Carolyn Keene
Not me." Ned laughed. "My future is pretty well set, and I don't want anyone tampering with it. I'll go into business, prosper, and marry a certain ambitious young lady named....
~ Carolyn Keene
Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.
~ Carrie Fisher
One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
~ Carrie Vaughn
I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado.
~ Carrie Vaughn
even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.
~ Carrie Vaughn
I couldn't find Dr. Flemming among the audience, either. So, Duke, Flemming, and Stockton had all ditched. Did that make me the last one standing? Did that mean I won? What, exactly, did I win?
~ Carrie Vaughn
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
~ Carson McCullers