Quotes About Determination

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

Keep going," Susan said. "The only way out of this is straight through.

I shrugged. "There's a war on." "Yes," she said, "and you're winning it.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

My own emotions were such a jumble. I'd known the right thing to do, and I'd done it....I'd felt afraid, but I hadn't come undone. My foot would never be all the way right, but I could walk and climb and run. My feelings might never be all the way right either, but they were healed enough.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution'—she was saying it wrong. I scowled—'will bring you victory, my dear.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

What did or didn't happen last year is less a product of a lack of discipline and willpower, and more a product of the resources - internal and external - that you are still developing.

The time to quit is before you wish you had.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Thinking about something and not going for it is like swimming without moving

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

How hard can it be?

Strength In Fortitude. (MacAllister Creed)

Henry requests Sin marry Caledonia) I would sooner geld myself. Drunk. With a dull knife. (Sin)

Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan) Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

Go to the devil, Captain Drake. (Serenity) That's not very ladylike! (Morgan) Then try this one. Go to hell, and…and rot! (Serenity)

You harm her, and so help me, I'll defy death itself to rip your heart out. (Ewan)

Well, then again, she herself could be pretty single-minded when the occasion warranted it. But going over accounts and taxes? Quite honestly, she'd rather be tied to a stake by her hair and drowned in pickle juice. (Emily)