Quotes About Determination

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

Women are dangerous, they stop at nothing and they never let go.

People ought to be able to understand that this is my way of fighting, she says. Cancer can't get me if I get me first. And what's the sense in waiting, she says, when I'm ready to go.

It would be unmanly to complain against the faith I had chosen.

It's time to get up now. You've got a child to tend to. A life to live. You have to put this behind you and go on.

The path you choose must be your own. And once that path has been embarked on, you must never falter, never deviate. I faltered... and deviated! And now I must get back on track... if I still can.

I still cannot define a noun, let alone a definite or indefinite article, or an objective personal pronoun. I rely on spell-check to guide my use of 'to' or 'too'. Does it matter? Colleagues said to me: 'If you want to write, just get on and write. Don't wait for a qualification.

As a tool for dealing with the lows I stick to my mantra. I put one foot in front of the other and take a step. I do something – anything.

You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality

Agora, Cato preferira regressar às casernas depois da instrução. Era imprescindível fazer amigos quanto antes, pensou. Mas como? E quem? Os outros tinham constituído pequenos grupos durante a viagem desde Avêntico, enquanto ele passara o tempo a ler o maldito Virgílio, recordou com súbita fúria. Dava tudo para voltar a iniciar aquela viagem, sabendo o que sabia agora.

There exists no purer concentration of Americanism than among the First Americans." The Navajos were so eager to fight that some of them lied about their age, or gorged themselves on bunches of bananas and swallowed great quantities of water in order to reach the minimum weight requirement of 120 pounds.

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities – a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. Howard W. Eves

Sobrevivir era un trabajo que requería todas las horas del día

Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.

La fatalité triomphe dès que l'on croit en elle.

By her eyes she clung to the world, as by her nails she clung to the sheet, so that she might not be engulfed. 'Live! Live!

En mi juventud se me ha dicho tanto que estaba equivocada, tener razón me ha costado tanto, que rechazo equivocarme

Cada hombre decide el lugar que ocupa en el mundo; pero es necesario que ocupe uno, jamás puede retirarse.

Pero nadie puede decir: «Yo me sacrifico», sin sentir amargura.

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.

I was clean straight uncompromising. No cheating: I've had that in my bones since I was a child.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.