Quotes About Determination

Even if she could not attend school, she was determined not to be outdone in reading books.

In fact, although she had no idea where to go or what kind of work to do, she felt compelled even before considering such matters to throw herself into action. Telling the union man Yamada (or Sasaki) that she wanted to work and had to do it came from an idea that surprised even Yasuko.

Fishermen who till now had known only servile submission, quite unexpectedly felt a tremendous force thrusting them forward. At first they were bewildered. Gradually they realized that their own power, whose presence they had not suspected, was manifesting itself. "But are we capable of making use of that power?" they wondered. Of course they were.

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

Talia Carner

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared. Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

No man wanted to be told what he could and could not do. And in that lay a well of strength from which one might not otherwise draw.

Jeg fylte tolv før en utrolig oppriktig sanglærer sa at han heller ville lytte til et kor av agapadder enn meg, og at jeg burde finne på noe annet.

look at the sun. 'They'll see

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

It wasn't the hand a person was dealt that determined the outcome—it was the person holding the cards who made the difference. And he'd laid his cards down long ago. At the foot of the cross.

A twinkle lit his eyes. "And I'll tell you this, my bonny lass, I'm not of a mind to let you go either. Not without a good fight." She smiled at his brogue and at the mischievous gleam in his expression. "But if it's a fight you're wantin'"—he winked—"then you've come to the right man, my lady. Because I won't be lettin' you go without one.

If there was one thing he knew a little about, it was pursuing a person. And though he wasn't about to give the woman beside him fair warning, Miss Ashford had better be on her guard. Because he planned on doing everything in his power to win not only her trust, but her heart as well.

i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, 'Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching.

As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help.

Even in hunger, Tigers do not eat grass.

In her early twenties, she'd had so many dreams of how her life would go, and all of them had seemed possible. When you're just starting out, potential paths radiate from you like the rays of a sun and all seem yours for the taking. But the minute you make your first choice – of career, or mate – you start shutting off all the others.