Quotes About Determination

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

It was like crawling on glass. No matter how firmly she resolved not to think such stupid things, she thought them.

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.

D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

Few things in every-day experience are harder than just to keep pegging away at a task which seems doomed to failure, yet which we cannot in conscience abandon.

The same week another disaster overtook us... vicious pelting of hail...What to do? We hardly know, but, as the saying goes, we have the bear by the tail and it looks like a poor time to let go.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

There comes a point when the universe needs to get on your side or go fuck itself and the universe gets in line.

You are not easily rescued

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

All right," I say and I go on, stronger than Celine Dion's heart.

He is ten feet away from the wire and his eyes are on the prize and he lifts his arms up in a V—ten feet turns into two feet—and he unclips his helmet—two feet turns into ten inches—and

I need help--Hey Siri, how do you kill love?--but who am I kidding? She doesn't know. No one knows. I have to figure it out myself, alone...

Remember: That voice in your head that says you can't do it is a liar.

When you want to make someone better, when you love someone, you do everything. Anything. Even if it's crazy.

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

One step at a time, Jonathan moved towards his destiny.

Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.

To the ends of the earth, madam, to say nothing of back and forth in this garden.

The Fiddler's Roost Inn: the taproom and yard. Sometimes it was not in a lady's best interests to follow any dictates but those of her own heart. Because Lady Charlotte Ascot, daughter of the Earl of Ware, had discovered this at a young age—eight, to be precise, during a footrace against boys with considerably longer legs than she—when faced with a challenge to her courage at the age of twenty-one, she did

Her stomach had fluttered when he asked so persistently, even threatening to persuade her. If he'd tried to kiss her to persuade her . . . curse him, it would have worked.

This is a book about friendship between women, and the importance that they attach to intimacy and to looking after each other, and about how, under conditions of acute hardship and danger, such mutual dependency can make the difference between living and dying. It is about courage, facing and surviving the worst that life can offer, with dignity and an unassailable determination not to be destroyed.