Quotes About Determination

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

and attitudes that would enable and encourage attempts at

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

with superb courage, and the decision and intelligence of a man.

No sooner do you get a field cleared of them than within another year a new layer has somehow worked its way to the surface. It's my opinion they boil up from hell, those stones, cooling on the way.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

I have learned to fail. And I have had my say.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

No hay en toda la Tierra gente más aficionada al trabajo que los catalanes. Si supieran hacer algo, se harían los amos del mundo.

y que no se acaba el mundo porque una cosa no salga del todo bien, y que ya habría otras oportunidades de demostrar mi cordura y que, si no las había, yo sabría buscármelas.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.

Tenía una confianza sin límites en su capacidad de sobreponerse a cualquier contrariedad y de sacar provecho de cualquier obstáculo.

No sé qué hacer, ni sé qué pensar, no sé qué sentir. Y sin embargo estoy decidida a seguir sintiendo, pensando y haciendo. No voy a detenerme al costado de mi vida hasta tener las cosas claras. Soy tan obsesiva y tan insegura que se me puede ir la vida decidiendo. No voy a correr ese riesgo.

Let the boy win his spurs.