Quotes About Determination

I won't have any part of it. Not for the world. Trying to help right now would be like trying to put out a fire with my hands. Painful, and with no real results.

He's not upset because you didn't trust him, or that you tricked Sim. He's upset because you found out what asinine lengths he is willing to go to in order to impress a woman." He looked at me. "Is 'asinine' the right word?" I took a deep breath and let it out. "Pretty much," I admitted. "I chose it because it sounded like ass," Wil said.

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

leave where I'm not welcome," she said matter-of-factly. "Everything else I can make up along the way.

So Taborlin fell, but he did not despair. For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him. He

Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to

el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo.

Tuan volgen oketh ama ~ Lass dich davon nicht verrückt machen. Wörterlich aber bedeutet es: Steck dir deswegen keinen Löffel ins Auge.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain. Third

No tienes las manos de un princesa frágil que pasa las horas haciendo encaje y que espera que llegue algún príncipe a salvarla. Son las manos de una mujer capaz de trepar por una cuerda hecha con su propio cabello para alcanzar la libertad, o de matar al ogro que la ha capturado mientras duerme.

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would've stood a chance of doing it.

So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.

Qué siente uno cuando sabe adónde va?

But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be.

Se había esfumado el resto de temor, desvanecido el desaliento y la sombría preocupación que le habían atormentado como a un viejo senil y tembloroso, evaporado la niebla de tristes presagios en la que se había movido a tientas durante semanas. Ahora se encontraba en terreno conocido y se sentía capaz de afrontar cualquier reto.

Sintió como la sangre caliente volvía a darle vida y como se apoderaba de él la voluntad de llevar a cabo lo que se había propuesto, incluso con más fuerza que antes, porque ahora la voluntad no tenía su origen en un simple anhelo, sino que había surgido de una decisión meditada… Poseía para ello una personalidad demasiado tenaz, un temperamento demasiado retorcido y un espíritu demasiado refinado.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

Don't ever be sorry for following your dream. Of all emotions, regret is the most futile.

Old boy, in this life there will always be a certain amount of shit to be shovelled. I really would urge you to buy a long-handled spade and simply get on with it.

can't be done," Buzz said. "You're only saying that because it never has," Loki said.

Think you can take me?" she said, putting up her dukes like a boxer. As a fighter, she made a great mage.