Quotes About Determination

She wasn't afraid to be wrong. And that, the Chief knew, was a great strength.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

It wasn't really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage.

Your brain is your weapon.

Patience. Patience. With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it.

The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices...but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well.

Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?

truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power.

Watching the man approach with a strong, determined step, Rosenblatt suspected Gamache was no more retired than he himself

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

Oh, you'd be surprised how clearly the heart can see. What I do know is that how we feel drives what we think, and that determines what we do. Our actions leave behind evidence, those facts you mention. But it all starts with an emotion.

Louise Penny

in her Montreal office the day a batch of rejection letters arrived, ripping them into pieces and dropping them on the floor for the hired help to clean up. 'This world is messed up, I tell you. People are cruel and insensitive, they're out to screw each other. There's no love or compassion. This', she sliced her book violently in the air like an ancient mythical hammer, heading for an unforgiving anvil, 'will teach

Louise Penny

Louise Penny

There's a fine line between noble perseverance and insanity,

intensity, as though trying to place

Burn our ships.

With patience comes choice, and with choice comes power." The words

what often distinguished great people of the arts wasn't genius, but perseverance.

The short answer is 'No.' The long answer is 'Hell No.'