Quotes About Determination

When I reached Grand Gulf May 3d I had not been with my baggage since the 27th of April and consequently had had no change of underclothing, no meal except such as I could pick up sometimes at other headquarters, and no tent to cover me. The first thing I did was to get a bath, borrow some fresh underclothing from one of the naval officers and get a good meal on the flag-ship.

Crecer en las sombras es el privilegio de quien se dispone a conquistar el mundo

Aut semel aut iterum medium generaliter esto

Rápido —volvió a incitarme Guillermo—, si no se comerá todo el Aristóteles! —¡Y morirá! —grité angustiado mientras corría a su encuentro y juntos nos poníamos a buscar. —¡No me importa que muera, el maldito! —gritaba Guillermo clavando los ojos en la oscuridad que nos rodeaba y moviéndose de un lado para otro.

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.

Other kids—blind date with someone's brother. Me? A blind date with a wrench.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career—a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.

Millions of ideas, constantly changing and shifting, drifting into consciousness and out again, and all supposedly at random, with no "soul" to direct them! No purpose, no goal, though every materialist was a living determination to destroy the idea of a soul, and of a God who had anything to do with a purely accidental universe! What a strange accident, that men should labor so purposefully to destroy the idea of purpose!

Esteban made a speech, explaining why the landlords and money-lenders wanted to destroy the people's government, and why the workers and peasants must be prepared to defend it with their lives. The determination of this audience was made manifest, but Lanny and Raoul could not see with what weapons these ill-nourished victims of land-erosion were going to meet planes and machine guns brought from Italy and Germany with the money of Juan March and the Duque de Alba.

The father kept two compartments in his mind, one for things that were right, and the other for things that existed, and which you had to allow to exist, and to defend, in a queer, half-hearted, but stubborn way. But here was this new phenomenon, a boy's mind which was all one compartment; things ought to be right, and if they were not right, you ought to make them right, or else what was the use of having any right—you were only fooling yourself about it.

was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.

proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once

The plane was tiny; it had to be, because, as the pilot said, it must be able to come down on a half dollar. It flew as low as possible in order to escape detection by enemy radar. To be sure, that made a danger of church steeples and tall trees in the darkness; but then, as Frederick the Great had said to his troops, "Do you want to live forever?

It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

Val McDermid

kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to

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give it your best shot. And if you fail? What is it they say? "Try again. Fail better.

Basically, it doesn't take all that much physical effort to shape up your mind.

My future would be devoted to strength--of character and muscle.

I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.

Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.

Breathing heavily, Major-General Gudz was making his way towards Mostovskoy. He shuffled along, wheezing and sticking out his lower lip; folds of loose skin rippled over his cheeks and neck. At one time he had been impressively stout, and these sounds and movements were all that remained; now they seemed quite bizarre.