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Quotes About Determination

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. I
~ Jane Austen
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness
~ Jane Austen
I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest.
~ Jane Austen
Curajul imi creste in timp ce scriu.
~ Jane Austen
If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.
~ Jane Austen
These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.
~ Jane Austen
Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.
~ Jane Austen
To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!—Do not wish me such an evil.
~ Jane Austen
Ich bin nur entschlossen, im Interesse meines Glückes zu handeln, ohne Rücksicht auf Sie oder irgendjemanden, der ebenso wenig mit mir zu tun hat.
~ Jane Austen
The distance is nothing when one has a motive;
~ Jane Austen
To complete every other recommendation, he had almost told her that he loved her. What strength, or what constancy of affection he might be subject to, was another point; but at present she could not doubt his having a decidedly warm admiration, a conscious preference of herself; and this persuasion, joined to all the rest, made her think that she must be a little in love with him, in spite of every previous determination against it.
~ Jane Austen
Ah, kendi kederleri olmayanlar için ne kadar kolay gayret et demesi!
~ Jane Austen
No hay distancias cuando se tiene un motivo
~ Jane Austen
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.
~ Jane Austen
That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
~ Jane Austen
But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined
~ Jane Austen
Your plan is a good one," replied Elizabeth, "where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it.
~ Jane Austen
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.
~ Jane Austen
El alma se le fue a los pies y apenas podía sostenerse; pero era obligatoriamente necesario sobreponerse, y luchó con tanta decisión contra la congoja de su espíritu que el éxito fue rápido y, por el momento, completo.
~ Jane Austen
She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill-humour which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.
~ Jane Austen
no estoy hecha a pasar sinsabores.
~ Jane Austen
probabil si ea il iubea putin, cu toate ca fusese absolut hotarata sa nu se intample asta
~ Jane Austen
No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive;
~ Jane Austen
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
~ Jane Goodall