Quotes About Determination

Always wetweating-always wetweating!

I'm not one of those men who submit to uneasiness and worry without having the force of character to face them. "I must think it over, come to a decision, and put it out of my mind," he said aloud.

There is never any 'impossible' with him. That's a thing I hate! Everything is possible.

I remember her praying!' he thought. 'You could tell she was putting all her soul into her prayers. Yes, that's the kind of faith that moves mountains. I'm sure her prayers will be answered.

Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

En la vida todo es cuestión de fe y tenacidad

In the human desert, where there are so many lambs, be lions!

En el desierto de la incertidumbre humana, donde existen tantos corderos; ¡ustedes sean leones!

Los que titubean ante el esfuerzo, es porque tienen adormecida el alma

A man with conviction is a hard man to change.

Wolfgang Pauli, to seriously consider quitting in 1925. "For me," he wrote in exasperation to a colleague, "physics is too difficult and I wish that I were a film comedian or something similar and had never heard of physics.

We have jerks, assholes, and those who are just dumb... dumb! " "You mean relative to you others," my mother once protested. "No, Mom, dumb like anyone is dumb." "So how did he get a Ph.D.?" "Sitzfleisch, Mom." Sitzfleisch: the ability to sit through any task, to do it again and again until the job is somehow done. Those who give out Ph.D.'s are human too - sooner or later they give in.

Lincoln's significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means, once they were found to be necessary, in achieving a great historic aim posed by the development of a young nation.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naïve or insane.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

I will starve till prophets find me, I will bleed till angels bind me, Still I sing till churches blind me, Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

I'm stubborn as those garbage bags That time cannot decay

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS

Don't be a guy who feels bad," said Tetsuo. "Nobody ever knows what to do. Our life-task is to decide what to do.