Quotes About Determination

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

anything else?

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

Surrender is not a Ranger word. Fine. Let the battle begin.

Please," Jonas said, and for a second she thought he might stop her. No more hope. Instead, his gaze latched on to her with desperation. No wonder the world needed people of faith to stand strong—they were looking to them for the smallest inkling of hope.

Wyatt Marshall hadn't come all the way to Russia only to fail.

I will find you.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

It's the way of evil. It is unrelenting. And the fight is always there. Our job is to just fight the battles we're assigned to fight.

and those of us who've been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again." Over and over and over. Jo

For a moment, there was no age difference between the two of them, no crossed purposes, no opposing forces. They were just two women trying to chisel a happy life out of giant hulk of rough-edged circumstances.

Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

I battled for my child and I prevailed.

tired people don't give up. Tired people just take a rest. Rest a bit and try again.

the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

we choose our actions at the moment when we must

Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.

Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.

If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to survive and their knack for useful deception and their genius for seducing human beings for hundreds and hundreds of years.

It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.