Quotes About Determination

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.

I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

I am an ambitious writer – I don't see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition for it.

I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse. I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.

But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream...

It is going dark. There are bombs exploding. Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.' Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it.

Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it

I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way.

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.

I will have red roses next year. A forest of red roses. On this rock? In this climate? I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

With faith, all things are possible.

I have ridden out all the storms," said Shakespeare, "even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…

what you risk reveals what you value...

To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.

Esta idea me causó horror, tomé la firme resolución de combatirme y vencerme a mí mismo, si desgraciadamente se apoderaba de mí esta inclinación.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you're willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

L'indépendance que je croyais avoir acquise était le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et maître de moi-même, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre à tout : je n'avais qu'à m'élancer pour m'élever et voler dans les airs.

People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.