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Quotes About Determination

E je une mê vecje massime chê che, quant che si à scartât l'impussibil, ce che al reste, ancje se improbabil, e scuen jessi la veretât.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
And so it was that I found myself that foggy November evening pursuing the Camberwell tram with my heart glowing within me, and with the eager determination that not another day should elapse before I should find some deed which was worthy of my lady. But who—who in all this wide world could ever have imagined the incredible shape which that deed was to take, or the strange steps by which I was led to the doing of it? And
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
has not been wasted, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
le conspirateur le plus assuré de réussir est celui qui conspire tout seul.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Do you tell me that we have to sit down underthis? Do you say that no one can ever get level withthis king-devil?" "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But you must giveme time—you must give me time!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers that threaten you." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Parece que el saber que uno ha hecho todo lo posible, ayuda a enfrentarse con el peligro. No queda entonces otro recurso que el de esperar con calma el resultado.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
clings to any straw!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
~ Arthur Golden
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
~ Arthur Golden
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
~ Arthur Golden
Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
~ Arthur Golden
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle
~ Arthur Golden
But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
~ Arthur Golden
Izdrži. To je jedino što bilo tko od nas može u?initi na ovome svijetu.
~ Arthur Golden
Mamita! -exclamé-. ¡Yo no puedo ir en avión! -Si estás sentada en él cuando despega, no podrás evitarlo.
~ Arthur Golden
Ne?u re?i da sam imala priro?enog dara za ples ili za bilo što drugo, ali sam zasigurno bila spremna uporno raditi dok ne postignem cilj.
~ Arthur Golden
There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
~ Arthur Golden
Meus encontros com o General me lembravam certa vez quando, ainda criança, eu lutara por subir numa árvore e pegar certa folha no alto. Era tudo uma questão de movimentos cautelosos, suportando o desconforto até finalmente atingir meu objetivo.
~ Arthur Golden
Every time I happened to read an account in the newspaper of some little shop that had made, say, bicycle parts before the war, and was now back in business almost as though the war had never happened, I had to tell myself that if our entire nation could emerge from its own dark valley, there was certainly hope that I could emerge from mine.
~ Arthur Golden
When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half
~ Arthur Golden