Quotes About Determination

But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation.

Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either.

Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.

Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it is free since it can choose the pace, but it is also unfree since you must go through the desert, unfree since every path in labyrinthine manner touches every foot of the desert's surface.

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

One learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over oneself with a whip; one flays oneself at the slightest opposition.

Düz bir yolda yürüyor olsayd?n, tüm ilerleme isteÄŸine raÄŸmen hala gerisin geriye gitseydin, o zaman bu çaresiz bir durum olurdu; ama sen dik, senin de aÅŸa??dan gördüÄŸün gibi dik bir yamac? t?rmand???na göre, ad?mlar?n?n geriye doÄŸru kaymas?, bulunduÄŸun yerin durumundan ileri gelebilir, o zaman da umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmana gerek yoktur.

If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you yourself are if seen from below, the regression can only be caused by the nature of the ground, and you must not despair.

So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up there, don't worry, just leap up another flight of stairs. As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards

Such a young trial!

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.

Und ich lernte meine Herren. Ach, man lernt, wenn man muß; man lernt, wenn man einen Ausweg will; man lernt rücksichtslos.

Ah, one learns when one has to; one learns when one needs a way out; one learns at all costs. One stands over oneself with a whip; one flays oneself at the slightest opposition.

one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago.

Die Erklärung wird mir auch deshalb schwer werden, weil ich hier alles in sovielen Tagen und Nächten durchdacht und durchgraben habe, daß selbst mich jetzt der Anblick schon verwirrt.

Não me abandonarei à fadiga, lançar-me-ei inteiramente na minha novela, ainda que tenha que me cortar no rosto

can venture nothing for myself as long as I have achieved no greater work that satisfies me fully. That is certainly irrefutable.

Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos

U ruci nemam ništa, na krovu je sve, a ipak moram izabrati ništa. Tako odre?uju borbeni odnosi i životna potreba.

I'm in a tight spot, but I'll also work my way out again.

The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already.

Desafortunadamente el inconveniente principal, ajeno a los casos mismos, es que parece que espiritualmente estoy imposibilitado para contraer matrimonio. Esto se puede comprobar en el hecho de que desde el instante en que tomo esa determinación, no puedo dormir, siento que la cabeza me hierve día y noche, una gran desesperación e irascibilidad se apoderan de mi, y al caminar me tambaleó de un lado a otro (p. 66)

Pues son las circunstancias; el hecho de que a uno le guste o no una cosa no siempre es lo decisivo. Por