Quotes About Determination

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Hunger is good discipline.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Never be daunted

You roll back to me.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

Please do it your own way. Do it in the mornings when your mind is cold Do it in the evenings when everything is sold. Do it in the springtime when springtime isn't there Do it in the winter We know winter well Do it on very hot days Try doing it in hell. Trade bed for a pencil Trade sorrow for a page No work it out your own way Have good luck at your age.

Grace under pressure.

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

What kind of a hand is that,' he said. 'Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

Even if he was ever afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

The hell with my arm. You lose an arm you lose an arm. There's worse things than lose an arm. You've got two arms and you've got two of something else. And a man's still a man with one arm or with one of those. The hell with it,' he says. . . .after a minute he says, 'I got those other two still.

The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.