Quotes About Determination

You dear, brave sweet.

No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man." He

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be bitch.

But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures

it in those days.

Quem me dera uma pedra para a faca, continuou, depois de ter verificado a amarração ao remo. Eu devia ter trazido uma pedra. Devias ter trazido muitas coisas. Mas não as trouxeste, meu velho. E agora já não é ocasião de pensar no que não tens. Pensa no que podes fazer com o que há.

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you. Thank you. You make me happy. I hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong. There is no such fish if you are still strong as you say. I may not be as strong as I think, the old man said. But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die." But

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.