Quotes About Determination

Well," said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, "I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

After a while I found myself near Mary Angus' shack. It looked so lonely and forlorn I almost started to cry. For the first time I really understood why she was staying here, how even though she was sick she could keep on living in a space like that. If you loved somebody enough you could live anywhere.

And shall Trelawny die?Here's twenty thousand Cornish menWill know the reason why.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Sukces przypomina troch? zapasy z gorylem. Nie przestajesz, kiedy jeste? zm?czony. Rezygnujesz dopiero, gdy zm?czony jest goryl.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The best way to predict the future," observes magician Gregory Wilson, "is to influence it."17

boots on. We're goin' after the devils.

They did it," the man said.

but there was no way he could hold a target

She acknowledged, for the first time in her life, the seriousness of her state and was determined to live rather than to act out her retreat from life. Beneath her character armor she had preserved a sense of integrity and honest feelings. Once she stopped withholding her thoughts and feelings, she was free to express her natural interest in life and in other people and became a significant contributor to the group.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

It's easy to cry that you're beaten — and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight — Why, that's the best game of them all! And though you come out of each gruelling bout, All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have one more try — it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft

Me tembló el alma. ¿Qué hacer, qué podría hacer para triunfar, para tener dinero, mucho dinero? [...] comprendí que nunca me resignaría a la vida penuriosa que sobrellevaban naturalmente la mayoría de los hombres

Me tembló el alma. ¿Qué hacer, que podría hacer para triunfar, para tener dinero, mucho dinero?...Y no sabiendo si pudiera asesinar a alguien, si al menos hubiera tenido a algún pariente, rico, a quien asesinar y responderme, comprendí que nunca me resignaría a la vida penuriosa que sobrellevan naturalmente la mayoría de los hombres. De pronto se hizo tan evidente en mi conciencia la certeza de que ese anhelo de distinción me acompañaría por el mundo.

Rajá turrito, rajá

I'm seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I'm in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I'm an orphan, and someday I'll be a lawyer. That's what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.

Suddenly drawing courage from nowhere, he decided he was not going to die. Now or never, he thought, and began to swim back up. It seemed to take forever to reach the surface and then he could hardly manage to keep himself afloat, but he did. That afternoon he learnt to swim without arms, like an eel or a snake. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.