Quotes about Determination

Courage is the gift of character.

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, But that is all.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

I talk with the authority of failure.

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.