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Quotes About Determination

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
~ Michael N. Castle
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
~ Evan Esar
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
~ Rich Hall
No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.
~ Mark Duplass
If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.
~ Michael Schumacher
When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.
~ Pema Chodron
The choices you make are creating your next moment, your next hour, your next day, your next month, your next year. Your whole lifetime is being determined moment by moment by the choices you make.
~ Pema Chodron
It's a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don't intend to retreat.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
La valentía de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinación por sobrevivir.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Will-power is useless without a sense of direction.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
What's to become of us? We can't go on like this." "Yes, we can go on like this," said Cesare. "We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Salvatore threw up his hands. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this. Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
and believe me, Mrs. Green, she'll be pegging out her own washing until the day she dies.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
It was like one of those terrible sights of the racecourse or the battle field where wallowing living beings persevere dumbly in their duty although mutilated beyond repair.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Will you be all right? Heater on twice, color contrast down, and keep hitting buttons on the extractor fan until it stops or I go mad. I think I can manage that.
~ Unknown
Trago em mim o inconciliável e é este o meu motor.
~ Unknown
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
~ Pete Rose
Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen 'the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Come up fish. Come to Quint.
~ Peter Benchley
At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man
~ Peter Carey
Lithuanians and it would take more than
~ Unknown
But, like most men of destiny, he wasn't going to allow trivialities such as truth to stand in his way. •
~ Peter David