Quotes About Determination

Leave these people alone. They've got something good and decent, and you come and foul up the nest and sneer at it. Well, I've talked to them too. I've gone through the city and seen their faces, and they've got something you'll never have -- a little simple faith, and they'll move mountains with it. You, you're boiled because someone stole your act, got here ahead and made you unimportant.

I learned that I was right and everyone else wrong when I was nine.

Ä°nsanl???n en harikulade ÅŸeyi bu; hiçbir zaman, her ÅŸeyi yeniden yapmas?n? engelleyecek kadar cesaretsizliÄŸe veya iÄŸrentiye kap?lmamas?, çünkü yapt??? iÅŸin ne kadar önemli ve yapmaya deÄŸer olduÄŸunu bilir.

Pero eso es lo maravilloso en el hombre; nunca se descorazona o disgusta tanto como para no empezar de nuevo. Sabe

Mas é isso que a humanidade tem de maravilhoso: por mais desencorajantes e terríveis que sejam as circunstâncias, nuca deixa de voltar a tentar, porque sabe que há coisas que são importantes e merecedoras do risco da tentativa.

To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.' 

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Ma questa è la meravigliosa qualità dell'uomo: non si scoraggia né si disgusta abbastanza da rinunciare a tentare di nuovo, perchè sa molto bene che è importante e ne vale la pena

Ma questa è la cosa meravigliosa dell'uomo: che non si scoraggia mai, l'uomo, o non si disgusta mai fino al punto di rinunciare a rifare tutto da capo, perché sa, l'uomo, quanto tutto ciò sia importante e quanto valga la pena d'esser fatto.

I'm numb, he thought. When did the numbness really begin in my face? In my body? ...The numbness will go away, he thought. It'll take time, but I'll do it, or Faber will do it for me. Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were.

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over

Dad?' he whispered. 'You ain't got the stuff!

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense—that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world — not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.

And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.

Men who come out here should have no entrails.

The making of a fortune cannot be achieved without some roughness. It is a matter of temperament.

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything--and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.