Quotes About Determination

Me acostumbro pero no me amanso.

I must ask, without knowing whom I should ask, if it is really necessary to love the man who slays me; to ask who among you is slaying me. My life, stronger than myself, replies that it wants revenge at all costs. It warns me that I must struggle like someone drowning, even if I should perish in the end. If it be so, so be it.

She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.

from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.

What I meant was that despite everything she belonged to a stubborn race of dwarves that one day might reclaim the right to scream.

Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.

E que seria a mesma em mim! se eu tivesse coragem de abandonar... de abandonar meus sentimentos? Se eu tivesse coragem de abandonar a esperança.

E eu não aguento a resignação. Ah, como devoro com fome e prazer a revolta.

Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

Romperei todos os nãos que existem dentro de mim, provarei a mim mesma que nada há a temer

All lives are heroic lives.

Often, I thought: "Surely this is it. He has reached the breaking point." He seemed at the very end of his power and resources. But he kept coming until I wondered whether I had not reached the breaking point. The only thing that kept me going was the certainty that without me there would be no one.

Science repulses the indefinite.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Claudia Mills

tuvo que meter las manos en el barro, en la inmundicia, para hacer lo que había que hacer, sin cometer ni delito ni pecado, ésa soy yo.

La memoria de los detalles, Elena sabe, es sólo para gente valiente, y ser cobarde o valiente no puede elegirse.