Quotes About Determination

You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas tree and a pet armadillo, well then, I would have gone to law school at Arizona State, I guess. I would have defended illegal aliens crossing the border. But we still would have wound up together, Dee. No matter what kind of life I had, you'd be at the end of it.

She is not the child that mirrors me, and yet when you put us side by side, there are definite similarities. It's not in the shape of the mouth but the set of it, the sheer determination that silvers our eyes.

Since when does anyone get the option to do what's easiest?

Her mind is running in circles, like a gerbil on a wheel, the same way mine is. Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

Fake it until you make it, she said.

really wanted Sage Singer to prove me wrong.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.

Either you dissolve into a puddle, or you take the blow on the cheek and force yourself to lift your face again for more.

She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left.

She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

Actually, she liked math. She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

Terkadang kau harus jadi manusia yang buruk demi menjadi ibu yang baik.

she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

into a conversation. I am hoping that