Quotes About Determination

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

Some people float through life while the rest of us pull the barge.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment. Happinesses have wings and wheels; miseries are leaden legged, and their whole employment is to clip the wings and to take off the wheels of our chariots. We determine, therefore, to be happy and do all we can, tho' not all that we would. - Letter to William Hayley, 26th November 1800

She felt weary and careworn, in the way one often does before the big job of work is tackled; that sense of premature or projected exhaustion that is the breeding ground of all procrastination.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." Isaac Asimov

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

William Boyd

This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further along the way.

Cornell off to realise another impossible dream, righting more geopolitical wrongs. In a way, she thought, you had to admire someone like that. They burned brighter than ordinary mortals.

Cortana's eyes glowed as she bent forward. "Piss off.

Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

the sky goes out if you should fail.

That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage, determination, and utter unwillingness to be beaten serves, in the truest sense of the word, as an inspiration for mathematician and non-mathematician alike. The long history of mathematics provides no finer example of the triumph of the human spirit.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

She was the captain of her soul

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!