Quotes About Determination

We are a volley of bullets, sing the newest cadets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.

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

Elena?" She'll laugh. She'll tousle Werner's hair; she'll whisper, "They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.

but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.

Prosperity depends on ferocity.

Você nunca pode deixar de acreditar.

We are young, they sing, we are steadfast, we have never compromised, we have so many castles yet to storm.

We shall march onwards, Even if everything crashes down in pieces; For today the nation hears us, And tomorrow the world!

An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges, the overflow finally giving way - he could not longer suffer his own cowardice.

There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.

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

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you Werner. I think you'll do something great. -All The Light We Cannot See

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." - Madam Manec

They want to hear that their kids will take over their world. No one wants to hear that the future is already determined. Death's success rate has been 100% so far, yet we still choose to call it a mystery.

he wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.

The Americans were badly discouraged. Twelve days to go, stripped of their gear, sniffling, they huddled in a Kraków McDonald's and invoked middle-school platitudes about Cornwallis's surrender and Valley Forge, about pitching crates of tea into Boston Harbor and bloody-soled snow marches for the good of the Republic. We must not quit now, they mumbled, and dipped their chicken nuggets into a tasteless sauce.

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

A failure is not a reason to stop. It's a reason to start again, and harder.

don't get mad at your failures, get up and do it again tomorrow.

don't limit me because of my disabilities - let my abilities exceed your expectations.

Don't be pushed by your problems, swim in them

Falling down is the first step towards coming back stronger

You can't be a bird, then cry about not being able to fly.

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.