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Quotes About Determination

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
With total discipline we can solve all problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
~ M. Scott Peck
The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and again
~ M. Scott Peck
I lived on anger, but it's the kind of fuel that uses you up even when it's pushing you forward.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.
~ M.D., Ben Carson
Ambition, since it is an eagle, cracked the egg on that occasion, and unveiled the bright, penetrating eye inside.
~ Machado de Assis
não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)
~ Machado de Assis
A coragem de muita gente não tem outra explicação. Não é sempre por valentia que os homens são valentes, diz La Rochefoucauld.
~ Machado de Assis
En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.
~ Machiavelli
Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But I'm not patient! cried Meg passionately. I've never been patient!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still had to go on writing. I'm glad I made this decision in a moment of failure. It's easy to say you're a writer when things are going well. When the decision is made in the abyss, the in is quite clear that it is not one's own decision at all.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We are going to your father, Mrs. Which said. But where is he? Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Nobody said anything about abandoning anybody. That is not our way. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, and we still do not know what to do. And we cannot allow you, in your present state, to do anything that would jeopardize us all.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The first rule of winning is to believe you're capable of winning.
~ Madeleine Wickham
There is nothing to fear except fear itself
~ Madeline L'Engle