Quotes About Determination

What had Pledger-Brown said? Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.

If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

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He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Robin McKinley

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

I said with perfect honesty, I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.

No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-

It is not so easy as running and not running.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.

but she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it.

He ran till he was blind with running, till he thought he had lived his entire life running, one foot pounding down in front of the other endlessly, till his bones were on fire with it, and every time either foot struck the ground his whole body cried out against the jolt. He set his teeth and ran on.

she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it. She

And what if it doesn't work?" "Then both of us end our existence tonight," he said in that impassive we're-chained-to-the-wall-and-the-bad-guys-are-coming voice I remembered too well.

I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.

there, though urging, inevitably, that the

You'll never know what you can achieve until you try. Just never, ever give up.

What are your strengths? What makes you think you are qualified for this job? What makes you think you will succeed in this position? Why do you want this job?

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.

How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.