Quotes About Determination

It's what's known as the 'why feed a fish if it's already in your net' mentality, but when a fish runs out of food, it has one of two choices: to escape or die

If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets

It may take three years, it may take five, it may take ten, but that will be the war of Indo-china.

My goal is to deny yours.

Don't go through life without goals.

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.

I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

She's my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. "The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.

Ruthless. That's my girl.

I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it

Stop waiting. Sink those pretty little teeth into something.

Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you." "What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy." "I'm crazy," he reminded her.

There's people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete.

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.

It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it's like hope.

This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

You're young, but you're ambitious in the way that perhaps only the young can be.

I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.