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Quotes About Determination

DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.
~ L.J. Smith
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
~ L.M. Montgomery
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
~ L.M. Montgomery
That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm in the depths of despair! (Anne of Green Gables)
~ L.M. Montgomery
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…
~ L.M. Montgomery
Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
~ L.M. Montgomery
She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.
~ L.M. Montgomery
There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some one to finish it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
~ L.M. Montgomery
When we have to do a thing...we can do it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Its wonderful to have ambition.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll
~ L.M. Montgomery
At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.
~ L.M. Montgomery
help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year—I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla—no matter what happens. Rilla repressed
~ L.M. Montgomery
No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll
~ L.M. Montgomery
Several pages omitted. Anne's pen being evidently neither sharp, stub nor rusty.)
~ L.M. Montgomery
I will keep faith, Walter
~ L.M. Montgomery
just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere.
~ L.M. Montgomery