Quotes About Determination

Take a leap of faith, and build your wings down.

Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding.

This Zippo read, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.. for I'm the baddest motherfucker in the valley.

She held the money to her chest and tried to fathom Alexander's heart. He was the man who, a few meters away from freedom, from America , had chosen to turn his back on his lifelong drea. Feel one way. Behave one way, too. Alexander may have hoped for America , but he believed more in him-self. And he loved Tatiana most of all. Alexander knew who he was. He was a man who kept his word. And he had given it to Dimitri.

You want to know what I thought of in that boat? I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.

Do you need me to com ewith you? She'll need a stretcher," Kashnikov said. "No she won't," said Alexander. "iI'll carry her myself.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.

I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished." She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.

Luchando contra molinos de viento

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Non tremerò né indietreggerò, non abbasserò la testa. Troverò il modo di alzare gli occhi, di non lasciare entrare niente. Eccetto te, Alexander.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.