Quotes About Determination

If I turn into one of those girls, I'll hand you the gun.

Go Big or Go Home

Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.

My entire body is shaking. I'm losing it. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.

Sin importar qué, debes saber.

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

On était dans son bureau obscur, décoré avec des affiches à visée éducative. L'une d'elles représentait des oies sauvages volant en formation, avec une légende qui disait : << Si tu sais où tu vas, tu iras loin. >>Pour ma part, je ne risquais pas d'aller bien loin, car on m'avait pris mes vêtements et mes chaussures.

Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait [even my parents had]... "But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?" Dad was still smiling, but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed down his speech. "You don't. You just work through it. You hang in there." So I went on.

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.

I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: "Fake it till you make it.

There was a kind of tough that could swim in the cold Pacific, and then there was the kind of tough Frankie was.

You don't need to be good; you just need to be committed.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choice makes you.

want you to get on with your life.

I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you..." she trails off.

You don't. You just work through it. You just hang in there.

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap.

Dans ce jeu de tir à la corde, je tire de mon côté alors qu´il ný a personne à l´extrémitée opposée

But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?" Dad was still smiling but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed down his speech. "You don't. You just work through it. You just hang in there

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you. . . ." she

From the great Jack London: "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." What inspires you?

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.