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Quotes About Determination

Anything but stop halfway
~ Franz Kafka
Above all, he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere
~ Franz Kafka
Girls of that age, though, do become enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever they can.
~ Franz Kafka
En un momento dado puede uno ser incapaz de trabajar, pero después llega el momento preciso de acordarse de los servicios prestados y de pensar que después, una vez superado el obstáculo, uno trabajará, con toda seguridad, con más celo y concentración.
~ Franz Kafka
Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.
~ Franz Kafka
well were those that were destined to do so from the very beginning, without any help at all, while all the others were lost in spite of following them so closely, in spite of all the effort, all the small apparent victories that gave such pleasure.
~ Franz Kafka
The only thing I can do now, he said to himself, and his thought was confirmed by the equal length of his own steps with the steps of the two others, the only thing I can do now is keep my common sense and do what's needed right till the end. I always wanted to go at the world and try and do too much, and even to do it for something that was not too cheap. That was wrong of me.
~ Franz Kafka
Above he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere. 
~ Franz Kafka
There are obstacles, questionable matters, disappointments, but this merely shows, as we already knew, that nothing is given to you on a platter, that you yourself have to fight for every trifle, another reason for being proud, not dejected.
~ Franz Kafka
From the true opponent, a limitless courage flows into you.
~ Franz Kafka
If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I will stay... I swore it and when the time came — I DIDN'T GO.
~ Franz Kafka
Her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi rapor edecek misiniz? İnsan baz? anlarda çal??amayacak halde olabilir, ama bu anlar eski baÅŸar?lar?n hat?rlanmas? ve daha sonra, engel ortadan kald?r?ld???nda, insan?n ÅŸüphesiz daha bir azimle ve gayretle çal??aca??n?n düÅŸünülmesi için de en iyi zamand?r.
~ Franz Kafka
Od pewnego punktu nie ma ju? ?adnego odwrotu. Ten punkt nale?y osi?gn??.
~ Franz Kafka
If you were crossing a plain, with the good will to get across, but all the same your steps took you backwards, it would be a matter for despair; but as you are clambering up a steep slope, as steep, say, as you yourself are viewed from below, it could also be that your steps backward are only caused by the nature of the ground, and you do not have to despair.
~ Franz Kafka
But is all your earlier life really so remote from you (except, of course, for the landlady, and there's no getting rid of her) that you no longer know how one must fight to make any progress, particularly when you start from so far below? How any method offering any kind of hope must be used?
~ Franz Kafka
My father went to catch wild frogs. I was skinny and weak, and my father heard their juice would give me size and strength. It tasted very, very bad... but I had to drink it because I wanted to be a footballer, and everyone said I needed to be bigger and stronger.
~ Park Ji-sung
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Look at the Seattle Seahawks. They talk it, they walk it and they play like wild animals. Sometimes you need that to win.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.
~ Deontay Wilder
When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
~ Sonia Levitin
I feel ready to fight all of them now, the very best, including Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, but I know my dad, my trainer Martin Bowers, and my promoter Frank Warren don't want to rush me through the ranks.
~ Daniel Dubois
I'd love to fight Wilder. They say everyone is scared of him, I'm not scared of nobody.
~ Andy Ruiz Jr.
I'm open to fighting anyone, whether it's Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder.
~ Dereck Chisora
I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
~ Patricia McBride