Quotes About Determination

Avoid the Counterforces to Mastery

Nosso nível de desejo, paciência, persistência e confiança acaba contribuindo muito mais para o sucesso que a capacidade de raciocínio. A motivação e a energia podem superar quase tudo. A monotonia e a inconstância desconectam a mente e nos tornam cada vez mais passivos.

The source of (50 Cents') power is his utter fearlessness.

Make yourself the flame and you will rise to the top. Since life is otherwise so full of unpleasantness and pleasure so scarce, you will be as indispensable as food and drink.

Cuanto menos intentemos, menos riesgo tendremos de fracasar.

Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done. In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch. When you do inevitably fail, it will confuse and demoralize you past the point of learning.

Understand: the more you want the prize, the more you must compensate by examining what getting it will take.

Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C.

Los científicos han demostrado que, por el contrario, es muy plástico: que nuestros pensamientos determinan nuestro paisaje mental.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

So I went down to their office and I said, "Well, I'll write a column for you." So the first year I didn't get paid anything, but I wrote a little column every month

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Just keep moving.

Reserva tu prudencia para las horas de la preparación; pero una vez empezado el combate, vacía tu mente de dudas. Ignora a quienes se acobardan ante cualquier revés y piden el repliegue.

Sometimes, he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight--start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight—start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if she might look back. But of course she didn't. He knew she wouldn't. She wasn't the looking-back kind.

In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity - Push. Click. Slide. Press -

ciertamente reacio, pero se negó a marcharse hasta haber recibido contestación.

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

There are few forces in politics harder to resist than a feeling that something is inevitable

The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.

People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that's why they succeed.

a rising than a setting sun."' This potent combination of

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.