Quotes About Determination

When the shivering and shaking stops, I know that I will be okay, but my jaw is still tight, and my knees are knocking and the only thing I can do is stare at the candle flame because it is constant.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

While she was doing something she kept her hope alive.

ADAMANT  (A'DAMANT)   n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them

Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.

Self-confidence if the first requisite to great unertakings. - On Alexander Pope

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -

If we make the praise or blame of others the rule of our conduct, we shall be distracted by a boundless variety of irreconcilable judgments, be held in perpetual suspense between contrary impulses, and consult forever without determination.

Potrai negarmi di accompagnarti, ma non puoi impedirmi di seguirti.

He stood suspended till I had speaking; and then, bowing, sat down again; but, as Mr. Reeves told me afterwards, he whispered a great oath in his ear, and declared, that he beheld with transport his future wife; and cursed himself if he would ever have another; vowing, in the same whisper, that were a thousand men to stand in his way, he would not scruple any means to remove them.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences well loved. It tempers our troubles to our growth and our strength. It befriends us in the dark hours, excites us in bright ones. It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. Samuel Smiles

There is far too much croaking among young men.

He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

It's hard for us to back down once we've taken a stand.

It's the right decision, Crawford.

If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.

every time, even with

You've had a lousy life up till now, no denying that. But if you let it ruin the rest of your life, who's the fool? Who will you be spiting? You, that's who.

have cost precious time. He'd kept moving. It was insufferably hot and sultry. Sweat had

stopped smoking