Quotes About Determination

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.

But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Failure is the first ladder of success.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?init ?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

Teško je dok se ne odlu?iš, tada sve prepreke izgledaju neprelazne, sve teško?e nesavladive. Ali kad se otkineš od sebe neodlu?nog, kad pobiješ svoju malodušnost, otvore se pred tobom neslu?eni putevi, i svijet više nije sku?en ni pun prijetnji.

Suviše je jaka i isklju?iva, kao i ja, samo ne žuri da to pokaže, tiha je i uporna, uvjerena da ?e biti onako kako ona ho?e. Njen otpor nije pobuna ve? strpljivo zauzimanje položaja, ne za trenutak, ve? za dugo vrijeme.

Grešne misli su kao vjetar, ko ?e ih zaustaviti?

Gonila me moja preostala selja?ka upornost i nemilosrdno jasna misao o potrebi da se branim. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri!

Onda je otac rekao: pamti, nesre?a je što kod nas niko ne misli da je na pravom mjestu, i svako svakome je mogu?i suparnik; ljudi preziru one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; navikni se na prezir ako želiš mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu. Ali ne ulazi u okršaj ako nisi siguran da ?eš oboriti protivnika. Ne upiri prstom na tu?e nepoštenje ako nisi dovoljno jak da to ne moraš dokazivati.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?ini?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.