Quotes About Determination

Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Let those who want to hatch hatch their own eggs. ----Martinique proverb

I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man. Having

let us leave this land, where we have met nothing but ill luck and misery, and which resembles nothing so much as a great test of our faith and a punishment for our sins.

Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.

By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt.

Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.

Please tell me you have to pee." "What? No. No, I do not. Don't even ask." "Oh, come on. I'd do it myself if I could, but I can't. I'm a girl." "I know. Life is unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him." "Oh." Mik pretended to consider this for approximately one and a half second. "No.

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Many a choice is made in this way: by pretending it makes itself. And many a fate is decided by those who cannot decide.

I've thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were.

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

If there's something you want, pursue it. Hope has power. Don't waste it on foolish things.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin—and of joy, which, if not explicitly a sin, at least clears a path to it.

We will fight for our world to the last echo of our souls

It isn't magic, just a focus for the will. A powerful will might not even need it" -Brimstone

And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled.