Quotes About Determination

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quicksand and beating it with a stick.

You see, I have cowardly feelings, but I try not to make cowardly decisions.

Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really.

estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

And one day he said, I'm going to see Hallam again. Bronowski's eyebrows lifted. What for? To have him turn me down. Yes, that's about your speed, Pete. You're unhappy if your troubles die down a bit.

We can't give up just because the Universe does.

Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.

I know. A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

difficulties vanish when faced boldly

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. --Isaac Asimov

retold as a heroic and masterly reversal of a lost situation.

Somewhere I had had a trace of faith in free will, but this morning I felt sure that man possessed as much choice as the clockwork of my wristwatch or the fly that stopped on the edge of my saucer. The same powers were driving Hitler, Stalin, the Pope, the Rabbi of Gur, a molecule in the center of the earth, and a galaxy billions of lightyears distant from the Milky Way. Blind powers? Seeing powers? It did not matter any more. We were fated to play our little games and to be crushed.

I didn't expect that anyone would be interested in my kind of writing. I was interested, and this was for me enough.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.

Váyase al carajo -Bueno, para allá vamos. Usted viene conmigo

Allí donde se cruzan o bifurcan los caminos debemos decidir la dirección que vamos a tomar. Esa decisión puede determinar el curso del resto de nuestra vida.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

Caminaba erguido y con el pecho adelante, dispuesto al combate, hablaba con voz de actor y elocuencia de iluminado, era controlado en los gestos, rápido de pensamiento e irreductible en sus convicciones fundamentales

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.