Quotes About Determination

Faliure is not an option.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort.

Failure is not an option.

It isn't equipment that wins the battles; it is the quality and the determination of the people fighting for a cause in which they believe.

S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

She smiled the infinitely kind smile of a woman who will not do what you ask.

Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.

No quarter will be given," he told me. "Do you understand?" I said that I did not think I could kill a man who begged me for his life, but I would try.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

You must never let yourself be turned aside from life's serious and important questions by ridicule.

Catch Catodon … cast out his conation.

You have no power over me, neither you nor they. I am not afraid of pain, or of death. There is only one living woman I desire

She possessed the hopeful, hopeless courage of the poor, which is perhaps the most appealing of all human qualities

since the only way to avoid giving into depression and despair is to do something, even something you hate, anything in fact, I force myself to keep bashing away at something, anything.

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.