Quotes About Determination

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

Gary Mabbutt is a living history of Tottenham Hotspur. The refusal to limit his life because of diabetes, the determination to go on playing in spite of injuries, shows the measure of the man. 'Legend' is a word that's applied rather too freely when it comes to describing footballers. When it comes to Gary Mabbutt, it's the only one you can use.

If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

Erlin never underestimated women, with or without swords in their hands.

Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de Nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en las últimas; todavía puede resistir un poco.

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

las palabras decidieron el curso de las acciones, tal como suele ocurrir en esta vida.

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in Our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives. -Julius Evola, Orientations: Eleven Points

Concessions made today mean condemning ourselves to being completely overwhelmed tomorrow. We therefore insist on intransigence of the idea, and a readiness to advance with pure forces, when the right moment arrives.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

The next day you look at the new pages. For once you don't want to burn them or give up writing forever. It's a start, you say to the room. ...In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace-- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character.

Nothing more exhilarating (he wrote) than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

Only Puerto Rican girl on the earth who wouldn't give up the ass for any reason. I can't, she said. I can't make any mistakes. ...Paloma was convinced that if she made any mistakes in the next two years, any mistakes at all, she would be stuck in that family of hers forever. That was her nightmare. Imagine if I don't get in anywhere, she said. You'd still have me, you tried to reassure her, but Paloma looked at you like the apocalypse would be preferable.