Quotes About Determination

And so I did not try. De Clare was a lost soul; I had seen too clearly the glint of obsession in his eyes. It was the expression worn by fanatics and evangelists the world over, the dogged determination to see only one point of view and entertain no truths but the fantasy in one's own mind. He would see this thing through to the end, no matter how many people it destroyed.

Fecklessness! We are never feckless," I told her coldly. "We are full to the brim with feck.

Because she doesn't apologize for anything. She had a rotten start in life, but she's made the best of it. She lives on her own terms. She knows who she is and what she wants, and she does what she is good at. And she has a good time doing it.

Be brave. You have everything you need," I murmured to no one in particular. "Everything indeed." Excelsior!

Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.

ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

If stubbornness were water, I could sail on you to the ends of the earth.

I am angry at being used as a pawn," I retorted. "I am not your chess piece to move as you see fit, my lady. I was not engaged upon this investigation simply because you wished to amuse Her Royal Highness or make certain Miles Ramsforth didn't hang. You were testing me.

our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?

She rose suddenly and put out

The first mission is finished with no casualties beyond Nat's cracked rib and the blood still caked in Mary Alice's hair.

I have seen enough of the world to know that women can scratch and claw and fight just as fiercely as men for what they want. Perhaps more.

am the woman who knows twenty ways to kill you and all of them with pain," I told her with an answering smile. "Now, take your carpetbag and your decaying mother and leave. If you come here again, I will not be answerable for my actions.

Anyone can get lucky," he said coldly. "And I suspect your continued survival owes itself to a combination of good fortune and sheer bloody-mindedness. You are too stubborn to die.

I am quite determined to be mistress of my own fate, Mrs. Clutterthorpe, but I do sympathize with how strange it must sound to you. It is not your fault that you are entirely devoid of imagination. I blame your education.

It's scary, but I won't let fear stop me.

I don't choose what I do based on how easy it is.

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

She realizes that all big decisions are ones that must be decided and decided again. She imagines that when you fall in love, you must decide to be in love a million times or more, and when you go to college, you must decide again and again to stay in college,