Quotes About Determination

Putting on socks is hard work, said Bink. I'm hungry.

Louisiana stood up again. She was holding Bunny close to her chest. She faced forward. 'Go faster,' she said. 'Are you kidding?' said Beverly. 'Who do you think you are? Some kind of queen? We're pushing as hard as we can. This grocery cart is worthless. It's like the wheels aren't even wheels. It's like they're squares or something.

As soon as Beverly said the words, Raymie knew that they were true. Louisiana's singing would win any contest. And Raymie wanted Louisiana to win. She wanted her to become Little Miss Central Florida Tire" (DiCamillo 212).

He can put us in jail for trespassing. I don't care.

he went down the stairs, "no choice, no choice

How long are you supposed to wait? That was another question that Raymie wished she had asked Mrs. Borkowski. How long should you wait, and when should you stop waiting?

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye. That's what I love about you. Your precision.

The skin of frozen snow crunched satisfyingly beneath my boots as I smashed each step into the ground just as I planned to smash my foes.

From the table, far enough away that they thought I couldn't hear, Bintou whispered to Wasa, "I can't believe she talks to him like that!" "I'm going to learn to talk like that!" murmured Wasa. "I can't run about and hit people like Cat does, but I can become an orator like Cousin Bee. I'm going to become a hero and cause trouble all over everywhere!" "Girls!

Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.

Most things are possible, if one decides they are.

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

In the face of such evil, what else is there to do but wipe it off the face of the earth?

History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

It was a matter of making the best job you can . . . and accepting your fate.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

willing to abrogate his own creative ambitions.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

Ain't 'cha gonna run? she asked. No, he said, shoving the sheet away. I'm gonna fly.

Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.

Katherine Paterson

she had stood at the gate of her compound and told the Japanese soldiers there that if they tried to come in and get her girls, they would have to do it across her dead body. This