Quotes About Determination

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

Keep moving forward...

New York was for people too hungry for life to be anywhere else.

An illusion of weakness, masking phenomenal strength.

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

Success is 80 attitude and 20 aptitude.

It wasn't that she didn't want to die. Nor was it that she wanted to live. She just didn't want to give up.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Since he brought an exacting and grim seriousness to his tasks in the best of times, he found this same demeanor effective in the worst of times.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.

I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.

Good work is no done by 'humble' men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking 'Is what I do worth while?' and 'Am I the right person to do it?' will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

You can declare at the very start that it's impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your back, so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels.

Hard days are best because that's when champions are made.

The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.' 'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.' 'If you desert, we will desert with you.

I can see that you have made your decision, but I wonder if you will become tired and discouraged. Me—I will never give up.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

Gabrielle Lord

Qu'est-ce que tu veux, Florentine, on fait pas comme on veut dans la vie; on fait comme on peut." ... "Moi, je ferai comme je voudrai.