Quotes About Determination

Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Step up and don't be afraid

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

And at such moments his eyes would grow winning, and his features assume an expression of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass beyond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth page permanently turned down. It was a book which he had been reading for the past two years!

Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.

If what you want, ... is to get rich quickly, then you'll never get rich; but if you want to get rich without asking about time, you'll get rich quickly.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

She gave in to the pride of a society beauty, and she became determined to become the best among the worst, whose circle she was entering

Don't fade your faith in my fate.

Your feet on your defeat.

I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you've felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose. Soon afterward, when I learned of her disappearance, I wasn't the least surprised. I understood. I had disappeared once, too.

Agatha was brought up to get on with things, to keep her head and never make a fuss.

Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

I have my own strength.