Quotes About Determination

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

accepting lifts is cheating and I cycled on.

Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself.

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

She owns her own hunger.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

For those learning English as a second language, there is little to do but roll the eyes, tear at the hair, and grimly memorize each one.

She refused to let common sense cloud her judgment.

The nuns were still just one step behind her.

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.

She didn't know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way.

No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was not afraid to use it.

She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there was nothing for her there. She had to go get Jack now, and anyway, she was safer out here with the wolves.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

Tugs had felt a sense of possibility today as she made that small speech, and there had to be a way to get that feeling back.

If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things . . . always try every possible way, and if you don't see a way, ask for help . . . COURAGE ALL THE TIME.

Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.

Tu avais raison, lui dit-elle, l'Elgolie n'existe pas. Pas comme je le croyais, en tout cas. Mais je n'ai renoncé à rien. J'ai décidé de faire de la Galnicie une sorte d'Elgolie à ma façon. Qu'en penses-tu ? — Te connaissant, répondit Filomène avec un large sourire, je pense... que tu es parfaitement capable d'y arriver, Princetta !

qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.