Quotes About Determination

Beat the storm to feel the breeze !!

He might take her life, but he could never take her will, nor break her pride. She was a daughter of Pecht kings; he was naught but a feckless

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

She'd followed him from the door to the condo into the tiny office even though he'd requested that she wait a minute in the living room. If he was going back to close his coffin, she had to see it.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

You can't just give up on a movie during the dark night of the soul, he'd said. What's that? I asked. That's the point in a film when all hope is lost and the protagonists must dig deeper than ever before to prevail against the odds stacked against them.

There are 7 days in a week but someday isn't one of them.

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people's. I had

caught hold of myself and nearly laughed at how ridiculous it all seemed. Colin was right—it was time I returned to my studies. Idle hands indeed proved the devil's tools.

I would not love you so well if you were less headstrong.

Because the motivation you start any action with determines how beneficial or harmful the result of that action will be, it is always best to begin anything with as vast a motivation as possible.

Be brave, my sweet love. Be brave, as brave as you can

Life's a bitch. This is true. But she's my bitch.

I was a scrawny, knock-kneeded little waif at seven with tangles in my hair and no acting training (in fact, with little formal schooling at all), but Peter took me on. He'd later say that it was my scrappy attitude that got me the job.

People will only fight so hard to try and old on to what they have, but they'll dig in and fight forever to protect who they are.

Looking back on it, it's like watching a horror flick and wondering why the characters are so determined to ignore the danger signs. When a spectral voice says, GET OUT, you should do it. But in real life, you don't know that you're in a scary movie. You think your wife is being overly emotional. You quietly hope it's because she's pregnant, because a baby is what you need to lock this thing in and throw away the key.

your best quality is also your worst. For herself, she identified her ability to adapt. "I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back,

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try.

she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love.

I could have pursued her. A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

yellow frock with puffed sleeves and an empire waist had seemed elegant on the pattern envelope. She didn't care much for the finished product, but having spent too much time tracing the pattern and reinforcing buttonholes, she couldn't just throw it away because of a puckered neckline and an unflattering cut.

the devil stays busy.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.