Quotes About Determination

The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains!

till dawn are we.

El éxito comienza en la voluntad

Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting

been lame in one foot from

Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.

As he held he closed his jaws tighter and tighter, for he made sure he would be banged to death, and, for the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked.

Celé umÄ›ní tkví v tom, neukazovat se proti obzoru, jinak po tobÄ› stÃ…â"¢elí. ZapiÅ¡ si to za uÅ¡i, chlap?e. TÃ…â"¢eba míli si zajdi, jenom z?sta? schován.

Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Rudyard Kipling

Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast. He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room. But he never gets there.

No fairyland is Capua—still, 'tis better Than other lands. St. Vincent licked the stamp and signed the letter, And bound the bands Of that foul, frail red tape which strangles ever The honest energetic fool's endeavour.

If you want something and don' get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

nothin', or his edukashin which he niver got? You that think ye know things, answer me that. But I found no answer. I was wondering how long Ortheris, in the bank of the river, would hold out, and whether I should be forced to help him to desert, as I had given my word.

And I still think," said Olivia, "that it's better to try and fail, doing what you want to do, than not to try." She could not explain it more clearly that that but she knew it was the trying that was important; even if it fails, it goes to swell the sum total of trying, as a martyr's faith, even if he is killed for it, swells the faith of everyone.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.' Vincent said that often. "Then why don't people get things?" Asked Lovejoy. "Because they don't want hard enough." Certainly no one could have accused Vincent or Lovejoy of that.

You don't give up writing until writing gives you up. –

Naraku holds my life in his hands. But I have no intention of remaining a servant forever to the likes of him! I am the wind. One day I shall be free!