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Quotes About Determination

Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe.
~ Katherine Paterson
He may not have been born with guts, but he did not have to die without them.
~ Katherine Paterson
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
~ Kathleen Norris
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
~ Kathleen Norris
That I was a success is not apparent now; that I would be a success was not apparent then. Within
~ Kathleen Rooney
I could persevere and overcome all odds. I didn't want to feel like a quitter on this relationship, or anything else.
~ Kathrine Switzer
Para alcanzar el éxito se requieren dos cualidades: el compromiso y la autodisciplina».
~ Kathryn Harvey
Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?" asked a gray female pup. "Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?
~ Kathryn Lasky
I have jumped for a tree, jumped for a raven, jumped for a cougar. I shall jump for the sun!
~ Kathryn Lasky
Anything worth doing has risks." Hortense paused. "And believe me, this is worth doing.
~ Kathryn Lasky
For those who believe.
~ Kathryn Lasky
it is better for us to fight for something than to live for nothing.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Hope is never a foolish thing—although others will tell you it is.
~ Kathryn Lasky
I swore an oath of peace, as well. But you know, now I think it is time to break it. I'll do anything to rescue my beloved master.
~ Kathryn Lasky
No slouch" was okay, but "any ocean" was definitely preferable - metaphorically speaking.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Could he climb, using his talons and beak?
~ Kathryn Lasky
Gylf, you can practice forever and still never fly if you do not really believe you can.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Be self-confident. Don't let others take the bread
~ Kati Marton
Wir schaffen das
~ Kati Marton
I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!
~ Katie Fforde
I'll either get a medal or get committed.
~ Kay Hooper
And as they shook hands, he almost told Bishop about the little voice in his head that was whispering, He'll find Miranda. But not yet. Not just yet. Then he saw the flicker in Bishop's pale eyes, and realized that the telepath had read him and his little voice. But he hadn't needed a seer to tell him what he was utterly convinced of. He would find his Miranda. Sooner or later. Quentin wondered if he would be so lucky with the end of his own troubled quest.
~ Kay Hooper
If he pushed too often or too hard, she was very capable of, at the very least, calling her boss or her invisible partner and having Max put on ice somewhere while she went on working. The girl twelve years ago couldn't have done that, but this woman certainly could. And would.
~ Kay Hooper
The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.
~ Kay Kenyon