Quotes About Determination

He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare.

What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat when there is no danger; and in any case, the combatants of the first hour alone have the right to be the exterminators in the last. He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success has a right to proclaim the justice of the downfall.

When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.

Running beer gathers no foam.

You have knocked at every door? she asked. Yes. Have you knocked at that one there? No. Knock there.

Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.

Ä°nsan içinde bulunduÄŸu umutsuz koÅŸullarda bazen bir zinciri bir saç teliyle koparabileceÄŸini san?r. (s. 55)

they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so.

When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

A hundred francs, thought Fantine. But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day? Come! said she, let us sell what is left. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat.

To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

he was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden. He did not hide the obstacles from himself.

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.

Dac? nu s-ar aprinde nimic înd?r?tul pleoapei, înseamn? c? nici un gând nu încolÈ›eÈ™te în minte, înseamn? c? nici un sentiment de dragoste nu clocoteÈ™te în inim?. Acela care iubeÈ™te, acela are È™i voin??, iar voinÈ›a înfl?c?reaz? privirea omului. Hot?rârea toarn? foc în privire; foc minunat, iscat de arderea gândurilor timide.

He resolved to leave the convent.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.

Une idée fixe aboutit à la folie ou à l'héroïsme.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.