Quotes About Determination

I should have known something was wrong when my advisor's parting words were Good luck. To his credit, he had—very gently—suggested that I might want to consider a different sort of topic. But I didn't want to consider another topic. I was madly in love with my topic: "Aristocratic Espionage during the Wars with France, 1789- 1815." It had dash, it had swash, it had buckle.

Swooning solves nothing.

I will be a bonfire and dare the world to put me out.

Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

de lo que se conoce con el nombre de perseverancia cuando la causa es buena,—y con el de obstinación cuando es mala.

condenada suerte, se dijo mordiéndose el labio inferior mientras cerraba la puerta tras de, sí,——la de un hombre que ha ideado una de las mejores cadenas de razonamiento del mundo—y tiene al mismo tiempo una mujer con una cabeza tan dura que es imposible hacer entrar en ella una sola inferencia, aunque la salvación o destrucción de su propia alma esté en juego!

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is why not? I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

I swallowed the fear. It's always there– fear– and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, "Yeah, you're bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school on a sunny day in May.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?

I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

I've got a cake rising," Eliza said. "I'm not leaving that for any man

WE ARE THE HORNETS, HORNY, HORNY HORNETS!

Never underestimate dainty little ladies.

Keep breathing. It took a few minutes but I won. The grey pulled away from my eyes in ribbons and whispered that it would be back soon.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?" The

It wasn't my fault. ANd I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow.

You opened a debate. You can't close if just because it is not going your way. -David Petrakis

that's pretty good, for a young girl from Fever 1793