Quotes About Determination

It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.

There is never any God in a country where men will not help themselves.

devoción a la eficiencia.

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

Let her go. To-morrow I shall forget. I am a firm man, . . . firm as a . . . rock, . . . firm . . .

Long after he had vanished, Nostromo, lifting his eyes up to the sky, muttered, I am not dead yet.

Some of them must be dead, he believed. The rest would go on fighting. . . .

When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect.

constant dropping will wear away a stone

As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.

Joseph Devlin

I don't know if it is my confidence or my techniques. I think it is a little of both.

Stay focused on the now. Get through this, leave the long-term choices for the future.

Challenge is tough. It needs efforts, energy and time.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives.

Georgia O'Keeffe, the famous artist from the American Southwest, expressed this same courageous attitude toward fear in another way: "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Courage is energized by challenges; it is inspired by difficult tasks and even seeks them out. When courage is present, we rise to meet different challenges for the sake of what we want to accomplish, and we're not discouraged by thought of hardship or by the length of the undertaking.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Because it's better to die on one's feet that+n live on one's knees, Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty convivtion. I guess you've heard that saying before. Yes, I certainly have, mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees.

Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.

Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.