Quotes About Determination

So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks. I'm starting my business tomorrow.

You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You try you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

They think that we are too old and useless. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

As he spoke, Daagoo realized that in these two women, whom he once thought of as helpless and weak, he had rediscovered the inner strength that had deserted him the winter before. Now, somehow, he knew that he never would believe himself to be old and weak again. Never!

You should motivate yourself, NOW!

Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action

Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

In some sense, winning against impossible odds—when most others cannot or would not try—is the only mark of a great general.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire.

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

There are things stronger than the strongest man...

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

No fear, no regrets.

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . . You ask why I speak? I am neither informed against, nor pursued, nor hunted, say you. Yes! I am informed against! yes! I am pursued! yes! I am hunted! By whom? by myself. It is I myself who bar the way before myself, and I drag myself, and I urge myself, and I check myself and I exert myself, and when one holds himself he is well held.

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.