Quotes About Determination

We need you to help talk us through this. That's crazy! I said. Go in guns blazing!

I couldn't arm wrestle an ogre, even with the mantle. I couldn't have won a magical duel with Mab or Titania—probably not even against Maeve or Lily. I couldn't outrun one of the Sidhe. But I could defy absolutely anyone. I could lift my will against that of anything, and know that the fight might be lopsided, but never hopeless.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

I had to get myself moving before the problem started looking too big. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

Goodbye, wizard." And the slender girl flung me like a baseball at the stone of my fireplace. Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Will you take care of my daughter?" "Yes, ma'am. Of course I will." Her blue eyes flashed fiercely, and she said, "Let me get you a piece of cake.

Any will can be broken.

All right, so. The entire day wasn't a living hell. But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.

Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine, Grimm said.

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

I'm aware of my limits. That isn't the same as liking them. (Karrin Murphy)

I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck.

Bob," I said. "We're going to bind a Titan." "Fuck that!" the skull sputtered. "I'm going to Utah!

Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that, then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

At five feet and small change, a hundred and not much, she didn't exactly look like a tough Chicago cop who could face down monsters and maniacs with equal nerve. Chicks like that aren't supposed to be blond or have a cute nose.

I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car

Right. Looks like Mavra and her scourge are in town. One of them came pretty close to punching my ticket tonight." Bob's eyelights flickered with interest. "Neat. So the usual drill? Wait for them to try again so you can backtrack the attackers to Mavra?" "Not this time. I'm going to find them first, kick down their door, and kill them all in their sleep." "Wow. That's an atypically vicious plan, Harry." "Yeah. I liked it too.

At the end of the day . . . some son of a bitch had freaking killed me. That's not the kind of thing you can just let stand.

said. Michael

spun back to the enemy, brought my shield up—and stood tall. "You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!