Quotes About Determination

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

You don't need it but

No pasarán [They shall not pass]!

Manuel Benítez «El Cordobés» dijo a su hermana en sus comienzos en el mundo del toro, cuando aún era un rapaz sin un duro: «O triunfo o llevarás luto por mí». Aquel primerizo con los estoques se convirtió, andando el tiempo, en el mayor torero de su época. El Cordobés era más toro que los toros

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. That task becomes a nightmare.

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Mack Bolan was not born to kill, as many of his comrades and superiors secretly believed. He was not a mechanically functioning killer-robot, as his sniper-team partners openly proclaimed. He was not even a cold-blooded and ruthless exterminator, as one leftist news correspondent tagged him. Mack was simply a man who could command himself.

Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

All the parties would send their inputs to God. God would reliably determine the results and return the outputs. God being the ultimate in confessional discretion, no party would learn anything more about the other parties' inputs than they could learn from their own inputs and the output.

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

I'm not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the woman you made me. Elena is at war.

You are killing me." " -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

There were other ways to live. You could do something else, if you wanted. And if you had a reason.

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.

You'll fly like a stone kite," said Encyclopedia. "Nope, it's going to work," said Casper. "Buck Barkdull has flown—" "Nobody can fly!" screamed Encyclopedia. "Jump off the roof and you'll find out what an anchor does.

O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.