Quotes About Determination

Eu nu cheltui o lira daca nu cred ca pot sa scot o suta.

Dizia a mim mesma todos os dias: sou o que sou e não posso senão me aceitar; nasci assim, nesta cidade, com este dialeto, sem dinheiro; vou dar aquilo que posso dar, vou pegar aquilo que posso pegar, vou suportar o que tiver de suportar.

Ich bin, was ich bin, und ich kann nichts anderes tun als mich akzeptieren; ich bin so geboren, in dieser Stadt, mit diesem Dialekt, ohne Geld; ich werde geben, was ich geben kann, werde mir nehmen, was ich nehmen kann, werde ertragen, was ertragen werden muss.

Don't succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don't regress, don't lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don't give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.

Every one of her movements said that to harm her would be pointless because, whatever happened, she would find a way of doing worse to you.

Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.

If you don't try, nothing ever changes.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

In a corner, a girl was staring at a stack of flash cards with incredible ferocity, as if she were going to eat them.

One must always be thinking," Isabel told Ralph. "I am not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless." And Ralph replied: "For weak people I have no doubt it's a greater happiness.'' It was a confirmation of my own idea of strength—of my determination to be strong.

Well, it made sense. If she could write a book, he would be out of a job. That's why Madame Bovary had to be too dumb and banal to write Madame Bovary: so Flaubert could have a great humane moment where he said he was Madame Bovary. But I wasn't dumb or banal, and I lived in the future. Nobody was going to trick me into marrying some loser, and even if they did, I would write the goddamn book myself.

It couldn't have been depressing, because my mother had worked so hard to make it not be depressing. And yet—was it possible that how hard my mother worked was part of why it had been depressing?

You cannot wait to be in the mood of prayer; you have to use the spur of your Prayer Rule to force yourself to pray," as Sergei Fudel writes in his excellent book Light in the Darkness.[xliii

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck.