Quotes About Determination

The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

Everything seems impossible until you see success.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

True success requires sacrifice.

it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.

Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.

He who chases the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.

And he at once determined on going to find Gilbert, who was residing at Versailles, but who, without having revisited the queen after the journey of the king to Paris, had become the right hand of Necker, who had been reappointed minister, and was endeavoring to organize prosperity by generalizing poverty.

I am no longer a reasoning creature; I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide.

No ho l'uniforme, ma ho lo spirito. Il mio cuore è moschettiere e mi trascina.

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

But why be discouraged? It would be asking too much of Providence if you were to expect to succeed at the first attempt.

Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated. "And now," he exclaimed, remembering the tale of the Arabian fisherman, which Faria had related to him, "now, open sesame!

And follow me wherever I go?'—'To the world's end.

A man was lying in the middle of the room, in a circle drawn on the ground with a piece of plaster from the wall, almost naked, his clothes having fallen into tatters. He was drawing very precise geometrical lines in the circle and appeared as absorbed in solving his problem as Archimedes when he was killed by one of Marcellus' soldiers.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons, continued the sailor;

Justum et tenacem propositi virum.

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. Ah, is it you, Dantès?