Quotes about Determination

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

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.