Quotes About Determination

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others—of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Let those who want to be happy ... be firm

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...

Now I have done, cried Captain Wentworth. When once married people begin to attack me with,--`Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, `No, I shall not;' and then they say again, `Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

Há uma teimosia em mim que nunca pode suportar a ser assustado com a vontade dos outros. Minha coragem sempre aumenta a cada tentativa de me intimidar.

Hay una especie de terquedad en mí, que nunca me permite que me intimide nadie. Por el contrario, mi valor crece cuando alguien intenta intimidarme.

I will be mistress of myself.

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

No hay distancias cuando se tiene un motivo - Elizabeth

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me

Her mind was quite determined and varied not.

But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward

I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want." Elinor

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. The