Quotes About Determination

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.

The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how.

Very well," said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.

She dismissed the past – trod upon it and put it out, as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous.

It depends entirely upon what is meant by being truly great. But the long and the short of the matter is, that men must stick to a thing if they want to succeed in it—not giving way to over-much admiration for the flowers they see growing in other people's borders; which I am afraid has been my case.' He looked into the far distance and paused.

I determined you should come; and you have come! I have shown my power.

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.

the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character.

A man who has spent his primal strength in journeying in one direction has not much spirit left for reversing his course.

I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

This weakness of character, as it may be called, suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal before the fall of the curtain upon his unnecessary life should signify that all was well with him again.

Yes, 'tis rather a rum course," said Venn, in the bland tone of one comfortably resigned to sins he could no longer overcome.

Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.

Aber manche Frauen brauchen nur die Herausforderung, damit sie ihr gewachsen sind.

Me quedaré –dijo Gabriel. Y Bathsheba volvió a sonreír.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that was hard to look at, they said.

There was a time when Starling would have deferred to these men. Now they didn't like what she was saying, and she had seen too much to care.

There is much honor and more sense in having succeeded with what was left, making something with the damned forty acres and a muddy mule, but you have to be able to see that. No one will tell you.

Qué me dice, Starling? —Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted?