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Quotes About Determination

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I
~ Margaret Mitchell
He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.
~ Margaret Mitchell
They burned you," she [Scarlett] thought, "and they laid you flat. But they didn't lick you. They couldn't lick you. You'll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!
~ Margaret Mitchell
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~ Margaret Mitchell
And I'm not ashamed that he thinks that way. He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.
~ Margaret Mitchell
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~ Margaret Mitchell
She'd make them sorry. She'd show them. She didn't quite see how she'd show them, but she'd do it all the same. She'd hurt them worse than they hurt her.
~ Margaret Mitchell
With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him. "I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
~ Margaret Mitchell
All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had
~ Margaret Mitchell
a woman not to be afraid of something.
~ Margaret Mitchell
What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils
~ Margaret Mitchell
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Dio mi è testimone che gli yankees non mi abbatteranno. Supererò questo; e quando sarà passato, non soffrirò mai più la fame. Né io né i miei. Dovessi rubare o uccidere...Dio mi è testimone che non soffrirò la fame mai più.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Good Lord!" [Rhett] cried impatiently. "Don't you ever think of anything but money?" "No," [Scarlett] replied frankly, turning hard green eyes upon him. "And if you'd been through what I have, you wouldn't either. I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again.
~ Margaret Mitchell
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. The
~ Margaret Mitchell
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
~ Edwin Drake
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
~ Eric Hoffer
Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.
~ Narendra Modi
Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?
~ Karl Jakob Weber