Quotes about Determination

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

She was the captain of her soul

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.

My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

The only way forward is to never look back.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.