Quotes About Determination

The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.

And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it's happening to you.

Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.

It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.

stayed because I thought things would get better, or at least not worse.

Do your best, And leave the rest, 'Twill all come right Some day or night.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

Bir ÅŸey doÄŸruysa, onu yapman?n yolu bulunur; yok yanl??sa, onsuz yapman?n yolu da bulunur. Ä°yi bir insan çaresini bulacakt?r.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost.

I am determined not to consent until I know for certain whether my aunt's opinion of him or mine is nearest the truth; for if mine is altogether wrong, it is not he that I love; it is a creature of my own imagination.

This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.

Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost. I determined always strictly to fulfil the threats and promises I made; and, to that end, I must be cautious to threaten and promise nothing that I could not perform.

Fakat dikeni tutacak yüreÄŸi olmayanlar, Asla gülün sevdas?na düÅŸmemeli...

Was it pride that made me so extremely anxious to appear satisfied with my lot - or merely a just determination to bear my self-imposed burden alone, and preserve my best friend from the slightest participation in those sorrows from which she had striven so hard to save me? It might have been something of each, but I am sure the latter motive was predominant.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to!

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the greatest question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideas and my fantasies.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!