Quotes About Determination

I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.

In a world, it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, wheron my soul is grooved to run.

For a long time, now, the circus-running sun had raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. So Ahab.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run

Didn't want to try to: ain't one limb enough? What should I do without this other arm? And I'm thinking Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows.

Deviarmi? Voi non potete deviarmi. La via del mio fermo proposito è segnata da rotaie di ferro per correre sulle quali il mio spirito è scanalato. Su precipizi senza fondo, attraverso i cuori infestati dalle montagne, sotto i letti dei torrenti, io mi precipito infallibilmente. Nessun ostacolo c'è, nessun gomito su questa mia strada di ferro!

There are no difficulties that can't be overcome

Duce, damn your whipped-cream soul, do you know anything that can clear up this crazy mess?

when we follow our passions, we also risk escalating our emotional commitment to a new course of action before we have evidence that it will be doable.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

I'll die, but before I'll run

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

A small rock holds back a great wave.

I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

You must endure and not be broken-hearted.

I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron.

No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated, but as for fate, I think that no man yet has escaped it once it has taken its first form, neither brave man nor coward.

Heroes, be men; be what you were before; Or weigh the great occasion, and be more.

Intet kan knekke en mann som havet, om han er aldri så sprek.

Show yourselves men my friends, and keep a stout heart. Think of your honour. With all men's eyes upon you it is a shame to be a coward. He that fights and will not run may live to see another sun. He that runs and will not fight is bound to die and serves him right.

So his heart held firm and constant, but he writhed around, as when a man rotates a sausage full of fat and blood; the huge fire blazes, and he longs to have the roasting finished.