Quotes About Determination

How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.

What did she give you?" He turned and smiled at me, the curve of his wide mouth transforming his face completely. "Faith in myself," he said simply. "To do what's right, and not falter, no matter how hard it gets.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

That's what it is to be a hero," Ríordán says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.

Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.

You must hold on to hope, or this cannot happen. Let hope go, and your battle is lost.

I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.

To say that is to say we have no choice at all in what we do, how we live. I don't believe that, Uncle. Perhaps we do have a short span in this world [...]; perhaps our scope is somewhat limited. But within those limits we do have the power to change things, the power to make choices and to go where we must.

Can a split quill write fair script? Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire? Can a cripple please a lady?

It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.

We're going to be busy.

Go armed with your formidable courage, your passion for truth and your strength of heart.

The flame burns in his spirit and he is not afraid.

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.

Apesar de sua vida ter sido de sofrimento e angústia, suas histórias nunca foram insuportáveis nem deprimentes. Tinham alicerces numa força moral que era o tempo todo alentadora.

The gung-ho spirit overrode caution, as ignorance triumphed over reason.

Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence.

winner's make it happen ; losers let it happen .

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat

The lecher in general is like an honest, hardworking investigator who, once aware of a mystery, will go to any length to solve it.

Waiting was a bore. With work one understands one's own effort is everything, but in waiting one can't use one's own strength.

Look not left nor right. Look only at your own footsteps.