Quotes About Determination

Tell him why I didn't stop, Marcus." The art dealer sighed. "You never said anything about butterflies, you moron.

She had a formidable will, the will to live when she'd wanted to die, to rule when she'd only wanted to serve.

To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Alle Kraft der Menschen wird erworben durch Kampf mit sich selbst und Ãœberwindung seiner selbst.

You don't get what you don't fight for.

The you that exists in the present—right now—wants to pursue your deeper goals, and wants to be a better person. But you know you're fallible and likely to crack in the face of temptation. So you bind the future version of you. You narrow your choices. You tie yourself to the mast.

It turned out pre-commitment was strikingly successful—resolving clearly to do something, and making a pledge that they'd stick to it, made the men significantly better at holding out.

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities.

al final, de lo que se trata es de lo terrible que resulta hacer algo carente de propósito y sentir que no tienes más remedio que continuar.

I was feeling so lost and depressed, but now, okay … I am a fighter. I feel good. You come out of your corner crying, and you start to fight." She blew her smoke away from me, into the air. "It changes you," she said. "You feel strong then.

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.