Ally Carter Quotes

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

It's all right Wayne," Waxillium said softly. "I've made a promise. I told Lord Harms I'd return Steris to him. And I will. That is that." "Then I will remain and help," Marasi said. "That is that." "And I could really use some food," Wayne added. "Fat is fat.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

A Fighter gets up... No matter what.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Resilience is going to pay off.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues