Quotes About Determination

I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

No point in playing if your goal is to lose.

Even motionless, she was decisive.

Then it was only right that she do as her spirit told her, and let the struggle itself answer the question of which was the stronger: her will or her womanly nature.

Do it, Ester. If you must, then deceive your husband just as you deceived me—but you'll do it with a full belly and a house with children. I wish

Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.

What was there to stop him from choosing some completely different life, after all? Nothing but the fact that he'd never wanted a different life.

You're a student?" John flushed as though the question were both compliment and accusation. "I was. Or am." He shook his head. "That is, I will be again, if I'm to have my say in the matter.

Yet a moment later she resumed walking with the air of someone too depleted for skepticism—her defeat displaced, unaccountably, by trust.

creature doing its delicate work, scratching to gain entry. To the Esteemed

Her spirit could not be bent, yet her rage found little purchase . . .

She pressed her fingertips into the hard wood of the handrail until they whitened. She would constrict the world to a pinhole.

He took it between his fingers, bore down with his bruised knuckle on its ridges, and like a miner picking his way toward an unknown destination began to write—slowly, steadily, filling the void with work. Was that what sadness did to a man?

Don't--she bit her lip and held it. Don't turn your back just because it terrifies you. [...] I don't think I'm strong enough, Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, How do you think people get strong?

I'm diff rent! I'm diff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

If the windmill should prove too formidable, said he, from the threshold, I may see what can be done with the wind.

Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal.

I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.

I could live with one butt cheek — just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass — but I couldn't live with my brains blown out.

Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet...