Quotes About Determination

Not me." She shakes her head. "I am going to fall in love." I am surprised into laughter. "So you've just decided? I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like sap to the skull." "Well, I have decided," she says.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else." "Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary," Taryn says, which is undoubtedly true, but still fails to dissuade me.

I will make him proud of me. Everyone else, I will make very, very sorry.

Before I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.

There are so many broken things that I don't know how to fix. But I know how to fight.

In my heart, I yearn to best them.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong. It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

If fighting breaks out, focus on what's in front of you. Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

Since I never intended to quit, it's nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." ? Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

was invincible.

This ancient Pinto was held together with sheer willpower and a whole lot of prayer. But she wasn't going to let her old jalopy ruin her perfect mood either.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Hades is relentless and unyielding.

Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Let's Go Cracker!

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.