Quotes About Determination

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Love does not have legs," he slowly read, his finger moving along. "It does not have arms. But it move mountains." He put the paper down at his side

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

Women do not leave situations like this: we push up our sleeves, lean in closer, and say, What do you need? Tell me what you need and by God I will do it. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

women of a certain age who still want to fight the good fight, as Gretchen sees it. She has

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

see you here, lad; old Kaiser Bill couldn't frighten

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

And that's the crucial element of life experience that so many of us avoid, you know. Trying something new, taking that single leap of faith into the utterly and absolutely unknown. Into the different. Those who take that leap are the ones who challenge whatever fate they might otherwise have. They fly in the face of societal expectations, determining for themselves who and what they will be and not allowing the bonds of birth, class, and bias to make that determination for them.

Elizabeth George Speare

There was the Dolphin coming up the river with all her sails. The curving tail of the prow was chipped and dull, the hull was battered and knobby with barnacles, the canvas dark and weathered, yet how beautiful she was! In

glancing defiantly from one hostile face to another, Kit found a

Elizabeth George Speare

Watching Prudence, Kit suddenly felt a queer prickling along her spine There was something different about her. The child's head was up. Her eyes were fastened levelly on the magistrate. Prudence was not afraid!

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.

short muscular neck, and a grizzled head

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, I already have, mister.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be.