Quotes About Determination

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been.

You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is not full of herself.

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl.

The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother's warnings, but I didn't yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I inspired or how relentless he would be in his determination to kill me.

When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

Oh, my adorable fry cook, wait till you see them. They're the most hideous, terrifying creatures, and wickedly cunning, and there's ever so much that can go wrong. But what you always know now, what we all know here, is exactly what we're fighting for and how right it is to fight for it.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. She

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.

What we had both done was keep on keeping on, which is all any of us can do.

The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

Hope lies in action

There is hope for you yet. -Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles

I'd settle for just getting my head above the shit line before I drown.