Quotes About Determination

Había la verdad y lo que no era verdad y si una se aferraba a la verdad incluso contra el mundo entero, no estaba uno loco.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor, you can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, Im a free man in here- he tapped his forehead- and you're all right

had thought earlier in the night that you can't run when you are sodden from head to foot and weighted down with a rifle and cartridges; I learned now you can always run when you think you have fifty or a hundred armed men after you.

World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. You will never have anything to sustain you except the idea.

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

Don't let it happen, it's up to you

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

For years i had been resolved - unconsciously at first, but consciously later on - that when once my scholarship was won i would 'slack off' and cram no longer. This resolve, by the way, was so fully carried out that between the ages of thirteen and twenty-two or three i hardly ever did a stroke of avoidable work.

Nesse jogo que estamos jogando, não temos como vencer. Alguns tipos de fracassos são melhores que outros.

Napoleon is always right,' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder.

No. I believe it. I know that you will fail. There is something in the universe—I don't know, some spirit, some principle—that you will never overcome.

No pueden penetrar en nuestra alma. Si podemos sentir que merece la pena seguir siendo humanos, aunque esto no tenga ningún resultado positivo, los habremos derrotado.

There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognised it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

Kuid on ka andekate, isemeelsete inimeste vähemus, kelle määranguks on omaenda elu lõpuni elada, ja kirjanikud kuuluvad sellesse klassi.

How could a college dropout find himself, at the age of twenty-six, a government-funded rocket scientist?

Willpower is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else should I have the confidence in myself to do important things?

No man willingly permits the thief to rob his bins of grain. Nor does any man willingly permit an enemy to drive away his customers and rob him of his profits. When once I did recognize that such acts as these my enemy was committing, with determination I conquered him. So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon. What

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfilment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves.

At first I worked with good will, but as the months dragged on, I felt my spirit breaking.

When I had almost given up hope

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.