Quotes About Determination

what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up

A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.

Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.

You remembers, boy," he says, "there is no bad weathers, only bad clothes.

Sometimes," he says, "when I feel like working, I just sit and wait for the feeling to pass

Von Rumpel laughs. He appreciates that they are trying to play the game. But don't they understand that the winner has already been determined? He

Marie-Laure hears Madame Manec: You must never stop believing.

You said that what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.

Aethon," says Olivia. "The fool you were telling us about. In the story? Even though he keeps going the wrong way, keeps getting turned into the wrong thing, he never gives up. He survives." Zeno looks at her, some new understanding seeping into his consciousness.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Waiting is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.

Frederick runs hard. But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before. They are impatient to find out what will happen if someone is caught.

Maybe he needs only to hear a flicker of hope.

with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.

people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

It's all right," he told her. "Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a

and she is so afraid to try her French that she goes to bed hungry.

Você nunca pode deixar de acreditar. Essa é a coisa mais importante.

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

each day working more frenetically than the last, as if against some deadline known only to him.

Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only thing that keeps your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.

We live in exciting times, says the radio. We make no complaints. We will plant our feet firmly in our earth, and no attack will move us.