Quotes About Determination

Zar mislite da ?e ?ovjek posti?i ono što želi?

Ali ta slabost, i taj strah pred neslu?enim teško?ama, ta želja da se legne i umre, da se odustane i primi sudbina, ne smiju sad da me zaustave. Nikakav zamor ni klonulost ne mogu me sprije?iti da izvršim obavezu. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri.

Ne smijem da hodam sokacima poput mjesecara, sa uzetom voljom kao bogalj. Nije covek ono sto misli, vec ono sto cini.

Svemu treba i?i u susret, ništa ne treba ?ekati. Ako ?ovek nije ni glup ni kukavica nije ni bespomo?an

You can't run away forever but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.

Nothing is easy in life. No plans were ever unhindered.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Tennis, as we know, was not my sport. Sport, in fact, was not my sport.

When do I stop? When I'm tewnty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tell s you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

He crashed quietly through the world.

Apparently you didn't require air when you were a teenager. You made your own air.

It was as though there were a box I kept under a bed and pulled out only once in a while, and in this box were crammed Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman and Carson McCullers and now Lee the journalist. If I opened the lid, their heads would pop out like jack-in-the-box clowns on springs, mocking me, reminding me that they existed, that women could occasionally become important writers with formidable careers, and that maybe I could have done it if I'd tried.

you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

Whenever I doubted myself, my dad would say, 'Grab that dream by the hands, Gwennie. Clutch until the knuckles go white.'" "Whose dream?" "It doesn't matter whose dream it is," she said. "Just that it's a dream.

I choose to excel, not compete - do you? I choose to make changes, not excuses - do you? To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not used. I choose to live by choice, not by chance - do you?

Remember this," she says, glowing, her skin golden and life-marked, "you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more.

My head is so full of plans that it seems aflame. Marie Curie

The true terrorism of girls is the accuracy of their aim.

The more I did it?the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.

Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.