Quotes About Determination

I WANT TO LIVE!!

I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!

If the talents I was born with are the right ones, I may someday achieve my goal. If not, I may go through life being as stupid as I am now.

I seem to hear thousands of voices--the voices of the common folk in the marketplace--urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

The young man rushed toward them. "Stand and fight!" he was shouting. "Is running away the Yoshioka version of the Art of War? I personally don't want to kill you, but my Drying Pole's still thirsty. The least you can do, cowards that you are, is leave your heads behind.

Unlike other men, he was able to find pleasure in any job that he was given, but this was not simply because he was born poor. Rather, he saw the work at hand as a preparation for the next task. He was convinced that this was the way he would one day realize his ambitions.

In an age hungry for young men of talent, this was no time to be distracted by a flower along the wayside.

Some of the weaker men have run away from the school, but the stronger and more courageous have all gone up to the spreading pine.

Keberanian yang sejati kenal takut. Ia tahu bagaimana takut kepada apa yang harus ditakuti.

How to make his mother, whom he imagined to be the unhappiest person in the world, the happiest, was what drove him on.

What if the bird will not sing? Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!" Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing." Ieyasu answers, "Wait." This book, Taiko, is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

She who dares wins

blue-and-white helmet, and the muscles in his powerful dark forearms knotting as

He was too old to believe in fairy tales. Right didn't make might, bad things did happen to good people, and determination didn't always win the day.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

The King, who excelled all the princes of his time in wisdom and greatness of soul, did not suffer difficulty to deter him or danger to daunt him from anything that had to be taken up or carried through, for he-had trained himself to bear and endure whatever came, without yielding in adversity, or trusting to the deceitful favors of fortune in prosperity.

Sometimes you need to fix a smile on your face and just muscle through. That's another way to deal with the sinking sensation that you cannot trust another person the planet. That is another kind of remedy.

In every endeavour, it is man or woman with unbreakable will who excels

Narrow-shouldered and light framed as i remembered, but forcing his way through the crowds with his arms bowed as if he thought of himself as a heavyweight.

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that door, why didn't I just go?... What kept me frozen there in a despair composed equally of impotent rage and a strange reluctance to shatter some exquisite but invisible structure, neither the shape nor purpose of which was apparent to me? In a words, what the hell was going on?