Quotes About Determination

Let's smell like women, armed to teeth with rage!

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

In days when men were men (And you should have seen us then)

There is no beast more stubborn than a woman. And neither fire nor leopard is more ruthless.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.

The eighth and last is for small actions, from one to five drachma's, or a little more; for these ought also to be legally determined, but not to be brought before the whole body of the judges.

Je ne suis pas plus ennemi qu'un autre des douceurs de la vie. Je ne suis pas un Don Quichotte qui a besoin de quêter les aventures. Je suis un être de raison qui ne fait que ce qu'il croit utile. La seule différence entre moi et les autres souverains, c'est que les difficultés les arrêtent et que j'aime à les surmonter quand il m'est démontré que le but est grand, noble, digne de moi et de la nation que je gouverne.

Excessive sleep. It can be a little hard to determine this in the early days, but generally speaking, your baby should wake up every 2–3 hours and be ravenous.

I'm tired of it. I'm sick of picking up the pieces and marching bravely onward. I want things to work out just once.

A little number?" "Fucked." "Thank you.

Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you --- I regret to say...to the ends of the earth!

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

Positive thinking! Positive thinking! Parang - awa mo na -- may exam pa ako bukas!!

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

His was the kind of perseverance that, for the fun of it, will perish in an attempt.