Quotes About Determination

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still

The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.

This Fura was different. This Fura was harder and scowlier and knew what needed to be done. This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss. This one could cut her own hand off if it helped. This one didn't care what people thought of Fura. And even as I cursed those tin fingers, which wouldn't yet do a tenth of what I wanted from them, I knew which Fura I liked the best.

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.

Experience shows that in such undertakings, the imagination is alarmed not so much by realities as phantoms, which vanish before a courageous heart which can look them in the face with contempt

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Weakness of attitude become weakness of character.

You never fail until you stop trying.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.