Quotes About Determination

Denn nur Ehrgeiz entzündet sich am Zufall des Erfolges und leichten Gelingens, nichts aber erhebt dermaßen herrlich das Herz als der Untergang eines Menschen im Kampf gegen die unbesiegbare Übermacht des Geschicks, diese allezeit großartigste aller Tragödien, die manchmal ein Dichter und tausendmal das Leben gestaltet.

A través de la falta de coraje y decisión del general Grouchy en la batalla de Waterloo, nos advierte de que la historia la determinan hombres atrevidos.

Estas consideraciones bastaron para decidirme. ¡No podía más! Veloz atravesé la líquida cortina de la lluvia y en cuanto llegué al banco, sacudí aquel húmedo fardo humano.

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

Come tutte le nature caparbie non aveva il senso del ridicolo.

L'exploit de Magellan a prouvé, une fois de plus, qu'une idée animée par le génie et portée par la passion est plus forte que tous les éléments réunis et que toujours un homme, avec sa petite vie périssable, peut faire de ce qui a paru un rêve à des centaines de générations une réalité et une vérité impérissables.

nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain.

As is the case with all those of a tenacious nature, he lacked any sense of the ridiculous;

Ojalá su impaciencia consiga más que mi paciencia.

üzerimdeki okul k?yafetleriyle yerimden doÄŸruldum ve sana geldim. Gelmedim; kas?lm?? bacaklar?m, titreyen eklemlerimle kap?na m?knat?sla çekildim.

Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

Mark Baker, Mary's father, was a man of very strict views, his head being as hard as his fist. "You could not move him any more than you could move old Kearsarge," his neighbors were wont to say of him — Kearsarge being a nearby mountain. This obstinacy, this indomitable will, was certainly handed down to Mary, the seventh child, born July 16, 1821.

El que hace una concesión no puede ya detenerse.

Sólo porque creía conocer un secreto le fue posible a Magallanes descifrar el secreto geográfico más grande de su época. Sólo

Piovi pure, cielo nero, grandina, e tu, vento, soffiaci contro. Noi abbiamo sempre mangiato pane e tempesta. E terremo duro.

Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

I did all that with my little hatchet.

what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. "We ain't poor, so why should we live like we are?" My mother sent up a wail. "Leave Miss Brookie?" One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be

All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.

As a free solo climber, when trying extremely difficult or dangerous movements on rock for the first time, I try it first with the safety of a rope.

I felt strong enough to go back down to piece together the exposed, powerful moves on the second pitch of the headwall, the "boulder problem pitch.

You will survive because you have to. Period.