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Quotes About Determination

You're going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra," he said. "It will make the journey faster." "The mule and I have an agreement." "The mule and you have similar traits," he said.
~ Melina Marchetta
I think of those little sullen-faced Year Sevens back in high school and here are these people who have such a great spirit and so little.
~ Melina Marchetta
How can you fight the world with a quiver in your voice, Beatriss of the Flatlands?
~ Melina Marchetta
It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.
~ Melina Marchetta
Finnikin had learned over the years not to think of anything beyond the practicalities of getting from one point to another. To focus on the achievable.
~ Melina Marchetta
But there was nothing wrong with their marriage. I could be a fool for believing this one hundred percent, but there was never anyone for Dominic but Jacinta and vice versa. They knew they'd get through the shitty part." "But they didn't," he argues. "They're not divorced, Tom. That marriage is not over.
~ Melina Marchetta
But say he forgets about me or meets someone else or pretends I don't exist. I look at her and then at Trini and Raffy. "Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake" Teresa looks hopeful. "It's not as if men haven't gone to war for dumber reasons" Trini adds.
~ Melina Marchetta
It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!
~ Melina Marchetta
Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.
~ Melina Marchetta
Never ,' he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.
~ Melina Marchetta
Sir Topher finally looked up. "Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it." "Then I choose to drown," Finnikin said. "In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
~ Melina Marchetta
Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Look, we all want to be brave, don't we?' said Moss. 'Well, this is how we do it: we keep on trying, even if we don't know if it's working, or how things will turn out. That's what courage means.
~ Unknown
I feel scared, if I'm honest, and part of me wants to stay here for ever. But most of me knows we have to carry on.
~ Unknown
I'm saying it because there comes a time when you need to decide if what you want from life is more important than the trappings you'd forfeit for that freedom.
~ Unknown
For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.' The mustard seed signified inner strength.
~ Unknown
If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance.
~ Melissa Kantor
I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.
~ Melissa Kantor
Have you ever tried?' 'No.' 'Then don't tell me I can't.
~ Melissa Marr
Going backwards is never an option.
~ Melissa Marr
She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.
~ Melissa Marr
Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can…
~ Melissa Marr
Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)
~ Melissa Marr