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Quotes About Determination

so I stand here without further deprecatory words.
~ William James
Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and opens a region though they fail to give a map.
~ William James
I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.
~ William Kent Krueger
But they were now on that April morning determined to use them—the first time and the last in the history of the Third Reich that the Jews resisted their Nazi oppressors with arms.
~ William L. Shirer
a former Norwegian army officer and
~ William L. Shirer
if anybody other than myself had been at the head of the Reich! Anyone you care to mention would have lost his nerve. I was obliged to lie, and what saved us was my unshakable obstinacy and my amazing aplomb."29
~ William L. Shirer
Goebbels was sure of one thing, though: "Once we have the power we will never give it up. They will have to carry our dead bodies out of the ministries.
~ William L. Shirer
Yeah, but where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
~ China Mieville
Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
~ China Mieville
Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.
~ China Mieville
Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked.
~ China Mieville
I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.
~ China Mieville
I always stayed. I can't say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or anything.
~ China Mieville
where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
~ China Mieville
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through
~ Chinese proverb
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes
~ Chinese proverb
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping
~ Chinese proverb
One step at a time is good walking.
~ Chinese proverb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~ Chinese proverb
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
~ Chinese proverb
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
~ Chinese proverb
Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.
~ Chinese proverb
Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb
~ Chinese proverb
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
~ Chinese proverb