Quotes About Determination

If your never deny you, go above your nerve.

To subdue the bumble-bee!

What I can do - I will - Though it be as little as a Daffodil - That I cannot - must be Unknown to possibility -

Wenn Dein Mut sich Dir verweigert – geh' über Deinen Mut hinweg.

I took my power in my hand And went against the world;

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve –

And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.

I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens, I say, realizing that just seeing what happens is my version of going for it.

Anything worthwhile is tough.

Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.

You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.

At some point, though, I gritted my teeth—literally—and told myself that was no way to approach life. I had to stop panicking. If I didn't calm down and believe in myself, at least a little bit, how could anyone else?

Women in the twenty-first century (which still sounds so funny to my ears) have options. We can marry or not marry; have children or not have children; be stay-at-home mothers or have careers. So yes, I told her, I want to get married, and yes, I want to find a life mate sooner rather than later, but that didn't make me a bad feminist. It just made me determined to have it all—

Nada es perfecto nunca [...]. Lo que cuenta es lo que tú haces.

He aprendido que eres tú quien forja tu propia felicidad, que una parte de ir a por lo que quieres significa perder otras cosas. Y cuando las apuestas son altas, las pérdidas también pueden ser igualmente altas.

I needed to have a thick skin.

I trudged down Golden Road in the dark, slipping leaflets under doors, still furious and embarrassed. The gang had felt sorry for me for having to go home. Sunny's mother after all, had laughed and simply asked her daughter if she had a jacket! I felt like such an overprotected dork. Still, I had to admit I was tired. My knees were shaking with weariness. By the time I finally reached Golden Pines, I'd almost started to be grateful to Mom for being such a worrywart.

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

But no, I used all my brave up.

Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

His plastic hand is up and he's waggling his fingers, I pretend I don't see. I'm not going to give him my fingers, I need them for me.

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

Better to drown in the surf than stand idly by the shore.