Quotes About Determination

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

La volontà di vivere. Quella forza che ti fa alzare dal letto ogni mattina quando fa giorno. Tutto può essere sostituito. Ma non questo.

Il concetto di giustizia non significa solo che le persone che commettono reati vengano condannate. Significa anche non arrendersi mai.

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

To choose joy does not mean to choose happy feelings or an artificial atmosphere of hilarity. But it does mean the determination to let whatever takes place bring us one step closer to the God of life.

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands, we are apt to suck our thumbs and decry our fates. As if nothing were to be done in cloudy weather, or, if heaven were not accessible by the upper road, men would not find out a lower... There are two ways to victory, - to strive bravely, or to yield. How much pain the last will save we have not yet learned.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We are a race of tit-men...

I was determined to know beans.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.

When you right or extricate a ducking businessman (take him out of chancery) and set him before the wind again, it is worth the while to look and see if he has any seed of success under him. Such a one you may know afar. He floats more slowly and steadily, carrying weight--and of his enterprise, expect results.

I should say that [John Brown] was an old-fashioned man in his respect for the Consitution, and his faith in the permanence of this Union. Slavery he deemed to be wholly opposed to these, and he was its determined foe.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

you must everywhere build on piles of your own driving.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined