Quotes About Determination

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

This might sound extreme, perhaps even a little deranged, but I don't think you can make it to the very top rank in any sport if you don't have a similar aversion to losing—a visceral, physical loathing. I look for this trait in an athlete, although the hatred of losing has to be balanced by a certain degree of realism, an ability to step back just enough so that you can process your disappointing performance and learn from it.

Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen

Deja de pensar tonterías y actúa.

No—the trampling, driving extravert, the one who always feels impelled to Do Something and is never inhibited by doubts or qualms, by sympathy or sensibility.

I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.

This state of 'no-mind' exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit.

in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Bien hacen en despreciarnos, que aún no somos nada —decía Martínez de Ballesteros encogiéndose de hombros—. Pero ya nos llegará la hora.»

Remember, that on the contrary a donkey is not only an intelligent animal, but also an obedient, polite and hard-working one. But if it's overloaded beyond its capacity or expected to be a race horse, it will stop and say, "I cannot do this. Do whatever you want." And you can beat it all you want – it won't move.

I'd like to know, who is more stupid and stubborn in this case – the donkey or the man?

I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.

Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.

Je voulais dire que la vie, je la veux, je ferai n'importe quoi pour l'avoir, toute la vie possible, même si je deviens folle, peu importe, je deviendrai folle tant pis mais la vie je ne veux pas la rater, je la veux, vraiment, même si ça devait faire mal à en mourir c'est vivre que je veux.

Non è un problema di fatica, di paura della fatica, di rammollimento. Ve lo ripeto: per Monsieur Bertin quella fatica era un piacere. Aveva bisogno di sentirsi stanco, di quel tour de force lo rendeva grande, e sicuro di sé.

Se accedere al senso più nobile delle cose era una faccenda di determinazione, allora accedere al senso delle cose diventava quasi un privilegio riservato alla borghesia. Perfetto.

Non se ne doveva dedurre che avessero cambiato idea: sarebbe stato in ogni caso troppo faticoso. Una volta deciso, non si cambiava mai, in quella casa, per evidenti ragioni di economia delle emozioni.

C'erano un sacco di altre cose di cui non si doveva più occupare. Era come uno di quei cavalli che, scosso il fantino, tornano indietro, svagati, al piccolo trotto, mentre gli altri sono ancora a farsi scoppiare il cuore inseguendo un traguardo e un qualsiasi ordine d'arrivo.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.