Ernest Gaines Quotes

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

I'm sick of running away from things.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

People who know me know that if I say I'm going to do something, I'm doing it. I am hungry. I am determined.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

Wherever the fight is, I'm going to be fighting.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.

Never run away from anything. Never!

You need to face what you're running from

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.