Quotes About Determination

You can surrender to the evil or you can find a way to push back against it, that's the choice

He laughed. I had made a joke, apparently. "What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.

When you climb a mountain, you need to be looking forward not backward.

Pro and con lists—one of my previous favorites—are just as bad. If it's important to you, and you want to do it eventually, just do it, and correct course along the way. Fortune favors the bold.

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

what an individual seeks to become determines what he remembers of his has been. In this sense the future determines the past.

Peux ce que veux. Allons-y.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Don't withdraw, don't surrender, don't give up.

cette façon que vous avez de vouloir renoncer plutôt que de perdre.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

Šiaip ar taip, ? nevilt? nepuoliau. Ir dabar jai nepasiduodu. Tik apsimetu. Sunkiausias dalykas gyvenime man visada buvo m?ginimas visiškai nusivilti. Nieko nepadarysi. Manyje visada yra kažkas, kas nesiliauja šypsoj?sis.

Mintis tuojau pat vykti ? Berlyn?, per pa?ius karš?ius, aišku, tre?ia klase, kad nužudy?iau Hitler?, ir visi su tuo susij? pasiruošimai, nerv? ?tampa bei nuovargis man?s visai nežav?jo. <...> Bemeilijau nužudyti fiurer? spal?, prasid?jus mokslo metams.

I'm a man of honor, Lili; of honor. — Yes, and the world ain't what it used to be, is it Colonel? — But I haven't changed, Lili, I refuse to change. I won't throw in the sponge.

You've always gone all the way, haven't you? — Well, all the way doesn't turn out to be so very far, after all...

At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending.

Obviously, I wasn't mistaking cathedrals for custard, but, having been raised among the kites of 'that crazy old Fleury,' I had a soft spot for anything that allows a man to give the best of himself.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

Il y a des gens, jeune homme, qui tombent tellement amoureux de la vie qu'ils préfèrent mourir plutôt que de renoncer à vivre

Il n'est pas possible d'être aussi con, murmura-t-elle lorsque je lui fis part de mon intention de rejoindre la Pologne, coûte que coûte. Je ne comprends même pas qu'on ne t'ait pas pris dans l'armée, con comme tu es.

Les Américains ne peuvent supporter l'idée d'un problème sans solution.

stones are hard everywhere.