Quotes About Determination

Siempre hago lo que me da la gana, fui voluntariosa desde chiquita

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Entre las cosas hay una De la que no se arrepiente Nadie en la tierra. Esa cosa Es haber sido valiente. Siempre el coraje es mejor, La esperanza nunca es vana

Nulla si edifica sulla pietra, tutto sulla sabbia, ma noi dobbiamo edificare come se la sabbia fosse pietra.

I leave nothing for nobody.

Para tener paz, necesitamos de la fe, de todas las fuerzas de nuestra voluntad.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

keep on following, waiting our chance

In May 1830, when in Paris alone with little Maurice, she found herself going to museums—the Louvre, the Luxembourg. It was not the first time, but she returned again and again, as if drunk and nailed to the Titians, the Tintorettos, the Rubens. She suddenly responded to painting as she had long before to music. Whatever métier, whatever trade or profession she would choose, she knew she would be an artist—in letters, in life, in her very being.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

this is not the time to become lost in sorrow. We must do something and not just wait to be victims.

students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.

A boxer, like a writer, must stand alone.

For Sorel, the fact that Marx's prediction that contemporary society would increasingly divide itself into two, and no more than two, mutually hostile classes was falsified by time, could be offset by the readiness of the proletariat to remain intransigent, opposing its nonproletarian opponents with absolute determination.

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton

It's all well and good to set reasonable goals, but when unreasonable goals are your only choice, you should always strive for them. Because it's not really a choice at all.

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.