Quotes About Determination

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

I feel a deep sense of security in this single-mindedness of freight trains

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Que no me vean caída. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

Que no me vean caida. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

Los hombres nobles eluden un esfuerzo realizando otro mucho mayor. Por no arrancar una rosa, construyen un palacio. Por no escuchar un reproche, ejercen la rectitud toda la vida. Por no bajarse del caballo, conquistan el Asia.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.

it. In the mind there is no free will, but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

Il coraggio, uno non se lo può dare.

La nostra infelice era ancora nascosta nel ventre della madre, che la sua condizione era già irrevocabilmente stabilita. Rimaneva soltanto da decidersi se sarebbe un monaco o una monaca; decisione per la quale faceva bisogno, non il suo consenso, ma la sua presenza.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it.

Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.

And she would do great things.

onslaught. Steve

Steve, are you alright. I have asked for tomorrow because of you. Your health is not good," said Notch. "My health is Ok. I get blackouts once in a while, but other than that I am fine. I am ready to go. We can begin right now. If we wait too long, my health may worsen," said Steve. "Alright, as you think appropriate. We will begin right away. Take all your necessary belongings," said Notch.

A real ninja doesn't leave things in the hands of fate and destiny. They create their own destiny.

This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve