Quotes About Determination

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

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and let an expert take over.

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment. She had indeed burnt her boats. But she smiled while she did it.

You just had to keep going, day by day.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

walked from it he hawked deep in his throat before

Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

Life is what you make it,

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

The ball doesn't know how old I am.

Molly s?rt?n? dikle?tirdi ve bir anl???na kendini bir at?n üstünden dünyaya bakarken hayal etti; onu kurtarmaya haz?rd?; kalbinin küt küt atmas?na, ne tür bir karanl?k ya?an?rsa ya?ans?n, karanl???n içinde parlamaya haz?rd?.

Extreme resistance can be a portent of extreme success.

What you need beyond that is a facile imagination and the skills to apply it, driven by a passionate will toward a focused goal.