Quotes About Determination

A strong man sails by ash breeze!

Captain Prince shrugged. "Not when you're sure of your longitude.

Bowditch Ledge astern to the north of them .. .

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it.

Quanto a noi, ci rifiutiamo di lasciarci squartare tra la tesi e l'antitesi. Concepiamo senza alcuna difficoltà come un uomo, anche se il suo ambiente lo condiziona totalmente, possa essere un centro di indeterminazione irriducibile.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

El compromiso es un acto, no una palabra

The path to success is a thorny one, and the way is steep. There are many pitfalls. It is a fool who does not take advantage of a helping hand when it is offered.

I will write my name in fire red.

poverty is the cause of many compromises.

have spunks and do battle for yourself

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Just you touch me once. You'll soon see if I'm a damn coward like you are.

Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.

Nous ne commençons à prouver quelque chose qu'en persévérant jusque dans un âge où déjà nous sommes contraints à l'économie.

But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me.