Quotes About Determination

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you." "I didn't know. If I'd known..." "It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.

We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.

We fight, therefore, we are!

The man who runs may fight again.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Oscar Wilde summoned his last measure of strength to say, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.

The only way to do it is to do it.

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

Sabía que lo esencial en esos casos era vencer la timidez; ser tajante y mostrarse decidida. Antes de llegar hasta allí yo misma me había hecho un lavado de cerebro para mentalizarme. Nada de tener miedo. Pero si el miedo apuntaba, había que considerar que también el miedo es un derivado de la esperanza; una especie de esperanza al revés. Todo era cuestión de enderezarla. (P. 64)

front of the part-chooserers. I am going to practise my lines ALL WEEKEND! Good night, Diary.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

What's the point of flinching? Whatever is coming comes anyway.

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

Who ask don't get who don't ask don't want who don't want don't get who don't get don't care

In life, there might be situations that make you sink, It's just to make you stronger than you think, Be like mercury not like glass when you get troubles, Split but join the mercury bits before it's lost in life's puzzles

Merline Lovelace

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.

A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden.

Don't let the world walk all over you. show the world who's walking on top.

Don't sit there and take the punch. Punch back this world has cruel jokes You have to be ready for whatever it will throw at you.