Quotes About Determination

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.

Every great oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!

O que um homem pensa de si, eis o que determina, ou pelo menos indica, o seu destino.

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

Ciò che un uomo pensa di se stesso, è quello che determina, o piuttosto indica, il suo destino.

AÃ…Â¥ je tv?j život sebemizernÄ›jÅ¡í, utkej se s ním, prožívej ho.

In all bargains, whether to fight or to marry, or concerning any other such business, little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue when both parties are really in earnest.

as you are resolved to fall in battle if you can, so I am resolved as firmly to come to no hurt if I can help

when a lady hath once taken a resolution to run to a lover, or to run from him, all obstacles are considered as trifles.

For as Alexander Hamilton pointed out in the Federalist Papers nearly two centuries ago, "A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton pointed out in the Federalist Papers nearly two centuries ago, "A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Be of good heart: be of good spirit. If the battle is not yet won, it is not yet lost either.

El divagador encara un problema, pierde interés y lo abandona. El hombre capaz de concentrarse persevera hasta que lo resuelve.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to confess herself beaten.

I don't like it, but I'm a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don't like.