Quotes About Determination

Zum Selbstmord neige ich nicht, denn ich verspüre nichts von jenem Tatendrang, der andere nötigt, so lange mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand zu rennen, bis der Kopf nachgibt.

A man is courageous only when he is also afraid.

Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it.

We are not, indeed, in the front-line, but only in the reserves, yet in every face can be read: This is the front, now we are within its embrace.

Might! I say to myself, Might, always Might—and be it no more than an inch it is merciless.

Es lag ihm nichts daran in einer Zeit, wo alles schwankte, etwas aufzubauen, das in kurzer Zeit wieder zusammenstürzen mußte. Es war besser, zu treiben, als Kraft zu verschwenden, sie war das einzige, was unersetzbar war. Überstehen war alles, bis irgendwo wieder ein Ziel sichtbar wurde. Je weniger Kraft man dazu anwandte, umso besser; man hatte sie dann nachher.

Gribu doties proj?m, bet kaut kas mani spiež palikt. Ja cilv?kam rodas iesp?ja moc?t pašam sevi, tad vi?š to vis l?ti gar?m nelaiž.

ÄŒovek je u namerama uvek veliki, ali ne i u ostvarivanju.

we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Sasprindzin?jums bija izzudis, un vi?š jut?s k? cilv?ks, kurš pavisam nejauši uzdrošin?jies uzk?pt uz pl?na ledus un sev par lielu p?rsteigumu redz, ka tas nel?st. Vi?š zina, ka tas ir pl?ns un ka ilgi varb?t neiztur?s, bet pašlaik tas tur, un ar to pietiek.

Ali, zapravo, ?emu sve ovo, Robi? - Zato što se ?ovek ne predaje. ?ovek je ja?i od sudbine sve dotle dok se ne preda. To je staro vojni?ko pravilo.

We find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death.

It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour," he said. "It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.

I never gave them courage," he said. "I was able to focus theirs.

I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

He insisted on keeping a Bren light machine gun in the trunk of his car, having vowed on numerous occasions that if the Germans came for him, he would take as many as possible with him to the grave.

I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word. Burnham said. Larson wrote, The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

It's a grand life if we don't weaken!'

These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business.

Churchill slept well, not even waking when the all clear sounded at three forty-five A.M. He always slept well. His ability to sleep anywhere, anytime, was his particular gift.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

it is one thing to say Carry on, quite another to do it.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'