Quotes About Determination

Se il coraggio ti è negato va oltre il coraggio.

quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted

I wasn't even thinking, What have I gotten myself into? I was thinking only of moving myself forward. My mind was a crystal vase that contained only that one desire. My body was its opposite: a bag of broken glass. Every time I moved, it hurt. I counted my steps to take my mind off the pain, silently ticking the numbers off in my head to one hundred before starting over again. The blocks of numbers made the walk slightly more bearable, as if I only had to go to the end of each one.

The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do.

Women are the ones with the cojones,

How could I carry a backpack more than a thousand miles over rugged mountains and waterless deserts if I couldn't even budge it an inch in an air-conditioned motel room? The notion was preposterous and yet I had to lift that pack. It hadn't occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to.

me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on. It took all I had to cover nine miles a day. To cover nine miles a day was a physical achievement far beyond anything I'd ever done. Every part of my body hurt. Except my heart. I saw no one, but, strange as it was,

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up.

I'd have to eat that

That was my prayer: Fuckthemfuckthemfuckthem.

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What

them. I looked at the place I'd come from and the place I was going, the two equidistant from me. I was too far from either, so I forced my way forward.

there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by the decision to quit doing it because doing it was absurd and pointless and ridiculously difficult and far more than I expected doing it would be and I was profoundly unprepared to do it. And then there was the real live truly doing it. The staying and doing it, in spite of everything.

I was not going to nod. Everything that had ever happened to me in my whole life was mixed into the cement that kept my head perfectly still

I'd stopped being grandiose. I'd lowered myself to the notion that the absolute only thing that mattered was getting that extra beating heart out of my chest. Which meant I had to write my book. My very possibly mediocre book. My very possibly never-going-to-be-published book. My absolutely nowhere-in-league-with-the-writers-I'd-admired-so-much-that-I-practically-memorized-their-sentences book.

Oregón! —exclamó, y casi me dejé arrastrar por el júbilo de su voz, casi me llevó a creer que esos 320 kilómetros eran coser y cantar, pero de sobra sabía que no era así. Para mí, todas y cada una de las semanas en el sendero habían sido un suplicio. —Oregón —admití,

I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve – EMILY DICKINSON

At foot speed, the Sierra Nevada seemed just barely surmountable. I could always take another step. It was only when I rounded a bend and glimpsed the white peaks ahead that I doubted my abilities, only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there.

I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

Who is tougher than me? No one.

Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. When