Quotes About Determination

When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband.

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

n'a plus la certitude qu'on va gagner, dans cette lutte contre la méchanceté des collines.

Il faut le tuer, dit-il.

Nous avons lutté contre le corps de la colline, il faut écraser la tête.

Med mindre Frøkenen har oppfunnet en tirsdag som faller på en mandag, kan jeg ikke hjelpe henne.

Une fois de plus, ma soeur m'a empêchée d'aller où je voulais.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

When I first started I was obsessed--putting in 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and loving it. My in-laws told my husband that perhaps he should get some help for me. Once the book was published it was OK because writers can be a little crazy.

No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn't, she taught herself to do it.

Convinced that the world is against them, some young people have decided there's no point in trying, a viewpoint linked to failure. Countering this view will be one of the biggest challenges of the next decade.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

It is choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

Excelsior, you fatheads.

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

He couldn't come all this way only to be defeated at the last by his own cowardice.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all very well to teach so easy a belief to normal children, who have a proper family and roof behind them; but a person whose only refuge in distress will be a park bench must learn a more militant creed than that.

The way people are for ever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, 'Perhaps it's all for the best,' when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!