Quotes About Determination

Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn't wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It's the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It's the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.

Our love is fleeting and fickle. It is based more on emotion than determination. It is almost always conditional and undependable, and can change as often as the tides.

I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody

It was morning, and nothing frightened Amy in the morning, because her will to live never kicked in until after lunch.

Aqui digo: que se teme por amor; mas que, por amor, também, é que a coragem se faz.

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

I promised myself that I would maintain momentum. Maintain momentum was the imperative that echoed all the way downtown. In fact I had no idea what would happen if I lost it. In fact I had no idea what it was.

Some women fight and others do not. Like so many successful guerrillas in the war between the sexes, Georgia O'Keeffe seems to have been equipped early with an immutable sense of who she was and a fairly clear understanding that she would be required to prove

Try to think about having enough left to break a bottle over it.

The woman picked up a broom and began sweeping the sand into small piles, then edging the piles back to the fence. New sand blew in as she swept.

At nineteen I had wanted to write. At forty I still wanted to write, and nothing that had happened in the years between made me any more certain that I could.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

People who respect themselves are welling to accept the risk…they are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.

supported the high ceilings.

He will toss everything aside if he must—Uther, the high kingship, Britain—before he will give up Morgan.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

There's no way I'm going to let a slang term invented by a scroungy dope dealer spoil my friend's cookie name.

Time & Money. They're always the deciding factors.

it, I just did it. I don't know if I

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

Witches don't just quit