Quotes About Determination

once the machine is put into gear, it must run its course.

It's over, I won." That's fine and dandy, but most times it isn't true. It isn't the first round that counts; it's the total at the end that decides the winner.

By the way, it's harder to become less tough once you have it than it is to become tough.

In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: "Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice." And that's what I'm doing, because I had no choice.

Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.

Exeter was a walled city and on his arrival William found the rebels manning the whole circuit of its ramparts. In a final attempt to induce a surrender he ordered one of the hostages to be blinded in view of the walls, but, says Orderic, this merely strengthened the determination of the defenders. Indeed, according to William of Malmesbury, one of them staged something of a counter-demonstration by dropping his trousers and farting loudly in the king's general direction.

they were determined to restore all of them to this imagined pristine state.

he decided that his only remaining option was to take his case to Rome.

And so Wilfrid set out once more for Rome. It was the third time he had made the 1,500-mile journey,

Nevertheless, for all Cnut's determination to portray himself as a traditional Old English king, his reign had altered English society dramatically.

That project, the State Water Project, more than anything else, is the symbol of California's immense wealth, determination, and grandiose vision -- a demonstration that it can take its rightful place in the company of nations rather than mere states. It has also offered one of the country's foremost examples of socialism for the rich.

that only those who dare, who demanded more of themselves than others believed possible, could make great things happen.

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Au milieu d'un monde qui s'écroule, on veut mourir debout. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

Il n'est pas besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Like a swimmer who throws himself into the water in order to learn, but chooses a moment when there are not too many people to see him.

She cursed her will, which could rear so impetuously and leap over hurdles so dauntlessly when her desires strove toward impossible goals—her will, so weak, so pliant, so broken not only when she was forced to disobey her desires, but also when she was driven by some other emotion.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.