Quotes About Determination

A character in Jonathan Franzen's 2010 novel Freedom puts it this way: "If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your own plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline. — perfect discipline.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

We march to victory or we march to defeat, but we go forward — only forward.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,...

Me, I only try. I'm not one like Moses, or Solon—or, or—Lycurgus.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.

I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.

Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

Hodor," said Hodor.

You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.

Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister