Quotes About Determination

What is character but the determination of incident?

Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color.

The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one's will and one's inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one's organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.

She likes to do everything for herself and has no belief in any one's power to help her.

I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.

I find that I really hang back; but I must take my horrid plunge.

She hadn't given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.

We shall be so right . . . that we shall be strong; we shall only wonder at our past fear. It will seem an ugly madness. It will seem a bad dream.

She wants to be magnificent. She is, said the Colonel almost cynically. She wants--his wife now had it fast to be thoroughly superior, and she's capable of that. Of wanting to? Of carrying out her idea. And what IS her idea? To see Maggie through. Bob Assingham wondered. Through what? Through everything. She KNOWS the Prince.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

We create our fate everyday

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another race of men. They are dark, sombre, passionate. They muscle into the bowels of the earth. They wait with a patience which is terrifying. They are the scavengers. They emerge when everything topples into dust.

El arte consiste en llegar hasta la últimas consecuencias. Si comienzas con tambores, tienes que acabar con dinamita o TNT.

If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.

A simple phrase may record a year's struggle.

Nothing is more obscene than inertia. More blasphemous than the bloodiest oath is paralysis.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.