Quotes About Determination

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. From Head Over Heels, by Jill Shalvis

Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing? She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.

Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.

Go big or go home. That was the Kincaid way.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom. someone will hand you a shovel.--- Phoebe Traeger

When life knocks you down," she said to Lanie after getting yelled at by a very rude customer, "calmly get back up, smile, and very politely say 'You hit like a bitch, bitch.

I remember that look, she said. It's the one you once gave Carlos right before you threatened to kick his ass. I can still kick ass, he said with absolute steel. I just wanted you to know that.

I'm tougher than this." He shook his head. "Somehow it doesn't matter how tough you are. You can be tough as hell and still be leveled flat without warning." She looked at him. "What do you do when you're leveled flat?" "You make a plan, you move on that plan, and you keep breathing

Because if she had to be off-track and a little lost, then she was going to have fun while she was at it, dammit.

I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.

I've got this.

She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Chloe Traeger

Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real.

I get that the proof of my wanting isn't as … evident as yours was, but I'm quite certain you could find it if you searched hard enough.

Life was short, so grab it by the balls and run.

She swiped at her eyes. "Suck it up," she whispered fiercely to herself. "It's all good, no matter how hard it is." "I'm going to refrain from saying 'That's what she said' since you seem to be having a moment.

You put your heart and soul into whatever you do. I'd bet my last dollar on you any day of the week, Rebel." With that shocking statement, he turned and walked off. And Tae absolutely did not watch his ass as he did.

The last guy who told me what I can't do is still walking funny." That gave him a smile. He was a sick, sick man, but damn, he loved her sass.

he'd always felt that life was worth living, fears and all, that if he didn't go for it, then why bother?

And then she stomped on it?" "In boots, with spikes on the soles," Aidan assured him.

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be." PHOEBE TRAEGER

There's no crying in baseball! —Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

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