Quotes About Determination

The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—I am what I am, and intend to be it

If you stop to curse you are lost, I said to her; equally, if you stop to laugh. Hesitate or fumble and you are done for. Think only of the jump, I implored her.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders!

Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her fore-runners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would be impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.

Perché se siamo sufficientemente decisi possiamo sbattere fuori casa questa sgualdrina, la Memoria, e tutte le sue carabattole.

It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays.

the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

I could see the corridor window, where the wires-six thin black wires-were doing their best to slant up, to ascend skyward, despite the lightning blows dealt them by one telegraph pole after another; but just as all six, in a triumphant swoop of pathetic elation, were about to reach the top of the window, a particularly vicious blow would bring them down, as low as they had ever been, and they would have to start all over again.

Perspective is critical to success. Your mind-set is more ingrained than you realize.

Dad simply would not settle for second best. He always insisted on several basic rules of personal behavior. Anything worthwhile costs an effort, or If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well, or Opportunities only come to those prepared to grasp them, or Do the thing you fear and so overcome.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.