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Quotes About Determination

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.
~ Ira Glass
The thing to do was kill it. Obviously.
~ Ira Levin
ABC is that old ability,breaks and courage.
~ Unknown
Never give up in the face of adversity. It is in the midst of adversity that we grow stronger.
~ Unknown
We will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —GALATIANS 6:9
~ Unknown
Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right.
~ Iris Johansen
I can't do anything else but my
~ Iris Johansen
Gil: "I doubt if [Eve] allows herself to be driven in a direction she doesn't want to go." Logan: "But it's possible to block out every other path so she's forced to take the only one left.
~ Iris Johansen
I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.
~ Iris Johansen
Iris Johansen
~ Unknown
You wore what you had the money to buy, and then, if anyone looked down his nose at you, you found a way to tweak that nose—again with the utmost style.
~ Iris Johansen
She gave him a cool glance over her shoulder. "May your balls wither away and you develope an allergy to Viagra and all its counterparts." He looked at her, stunned. And then he suddenly exploded into laughter. "God, you're a formidable woman" "No, I'm not. I'm soft, remember?" She slammed the door behind her.
~ Iris Johansen
I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.
~ Iris Johansen
A writer in the act of writing must fear neither his own words nor anything else in the world. A writer who is afraid is no true writer.
~ Unknown
And they would laugh at me. The dress was all sticking out around me and it was dark green with a pattern of animals with long tongues on it--and all the kids were laughing at me. And now I'm wearing a fur coat, and I'm in Berlin! And I would throw rocks at them and swear to myself that I would not be the kind that is laughed at, but that I would do the laughing.
~ Unknown
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
~ Irving Babbitt
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
~ Irving Berlin
You've got to get up, you've got to get up,You've got to get up this morning!
~ Irving Berlin
T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.
~ Unknown
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
~ Irving Stone
You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.
~ Irving Stone
Realizing that the enemy was determined to fight to the bitter end, Cortés remarked, ". . . We would recover little if any of the treasure that had been taken from us, and they would force us to destroy them totally. This last caused me the greater sorrow," he said, "because it weighed on my soul.
~ Unknown
It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.
~ Irwin Shaw
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)
~ Unknown