Quotes About Determination

La diferencia es que estos jovencitos dan por sentado que van a conseguir cuanto se proponen, mientras que nosotros casi siempre dábamos por sentado que no debíamos conseguirlo. Aunque me pregunto si algo que uno está seguro de conseguir le haría latir tan locamente el corazón.

There's always a reason for wanting to get out of life—the wonder is that we find so many for staying in!

Stephen felt personally these inconveniences; but because the evil was too stubborn to be redressed at once, he resolved to proceed gradually

He castigates his habitual targets, "the dull, the feeble, and the timid good," and proclaims himself a strong man, careless of class, color, or party politics. "If I find a public servant who is dishonest, I will chop his head off if he is the highest Republican in this municipality!

All things come to him who hustles while he waits.

up to MacManus, who towered over him, he hissed, "I hear you are going to toss me in a blanket. By God! if you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls, I'll do anything to you—you'd better leave me alone." This speech had the desired effect.38

Black care," Roosevelt wrote, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

a stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.

To hell with it, he thought. Bad start is a good ending, boys.

You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

The rapid firing of the 105s pounding the hill up ahead encouraged him. Maybe this won't be so bad, he reasoned. No one could survive that pounding.

If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp. Whatsoever walls he has determined to level with the ground, our hands are ready to work the engines: nor shall we hesitate, should the name of the devoted city be Rome itself.

The sky has grown completely black, It's time to think of turning back. Fall down, or scream, or rush about- There is no way of getting out.

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people

A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.

Calvin had said, his hands hard at his sides.

A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that.

We are measured not only by our triumphs, young man, but by our persistence. If we fail, we must try harder.

She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

Suicide wore the mask of self-rejection; but in reality nobody took their personality more seriously than the person who was planning to kill himself on its instructions. Nobody was more determined to stay in charge at any cost, to force the most mysterious aspect of life into their own imperious schedule.

He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father's life: 'Never apologize, never explain.

One seldom knows whether perseverance is noble or stupid until it's too late.

Most researchers are quick to point out that the biologically oriented studies suggest that genetics can influence people, and with this Scripture has no dispute. People can be physiologically predisposed to enjoying a particular drug, food, activity, or physical experience, but there is a categorical difference between being influenced by genetics and being determined by it.