Quotes About Determination

jennet. Are you doing this to save me? thomas. You natter my powers, My sweet; you're too much a woman. But if you wish You can go down to the dinner of damnation On my arm. jennet. I dine elsewhere.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

He was dying all his life.

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

Heinrich Gerlach

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

Klotzen, nicht Kleckern' (the

Lo cierto es que me obsesionaba una sola idea: la determinación de vivir, de sobrevivir a toda costa.

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I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn't work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have been over at minute 32.

He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of...

He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He

My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end. She did not know what else to do.

There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.

In her excitement at the idea of just walking out the door she had walked out the door without stopping to practice and without even her sheet music, and now she had nothing to play from and nothing prepared. Some people might have been daunted by this setback. The Konigsbergs faced musical catastrophe on a daily basis, & their motto was: Never say die.

His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin's Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row.

Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation….Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance, said Sib, was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

Be brave. Each time you are brave, it grows easier.

If you don't know what to do with the rest of your life, make your bed. If you're going to be a couch potato, at least fluff the pillows. If you can't afford pearls, red nail polish is your best accessory. If you don't have time to do your nails, smile and stand up straight.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.