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Quotes About Determination

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
~ Samuel Johnson
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March
~ Tom Berenger
He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
~ John Green
Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.
~ Harry S. Truman
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
~ C. S. Lewis
Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons.
~ Philip Roth
Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.
~ Philip Roth
Porque é em momentos assim que amamos as pessoas, quando as vemos decididas a enfrentar o pior. Não corajosas. Não heróicas. Simplesmente decididas.
~ Philip Roth
A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit—a panther ready to pounce.
~ Philip Roth
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
~ Philip Yancey
some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.
~ Philip Yancey
He dithered but never dallied.
~ Philip Zaleski
I have learned the power of surviving.
~ Philippa Gregory
When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.
~ Philippa Gregory
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
~ Philippa Gregory
Sometimes we win; sometimes we lose. The main thing is that we always, we always go on.
~ Philippa Gregory
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
~ Philippa Gregory
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
~ Philippa Gregory
Yes, Your Grace, I correct her. I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.
~ Philippa Gregory
He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I have his name: Richard Neville and that of George, Duke of Clarence, written in my blood on a piece of paper from the corner of my father's last letter. These are my enemies, I have cursed them. I will see them dead at my feet.
~ Philippa Gregory
This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
~ Philippa Gregory
We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
~ Philippa Gregory
I don't know how much we will rise, I say stoutly. And I have no fear of falling. He looks at me. You are ambitious to rise? We are all on fortune's wheel, I say. Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.
~ Philippa Gregory