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Quotes About Determination

This gander likes to do his own chasing, Madam Goose.
~ Anna Campbell
The Earl of Ravenglass can't marry the woman who's been his mistress for six weeks." "Watch me." She
~ Anna Campbell
Exhilaration bubbled in his blood. Exhilaration and the determination to win this lassie. He'd always enjoyed games. This one promised champion fun. Devilry
~ Anna Campbell
At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,
~ Anna Funder
To understand her," I say, "you have to understand what she was trying to do. Dora was ... a verb.
~ Anna Funder
A volte l'uomo è preso da un senso di nausea, fisica o spirituale, che lo priva di ogni volontà e determinazione e lo spinge, fiacco e allo sbando, a desiderare la morte. Allora sprofonda irresistibilmente verso la distruzione, verso un folle tuffo nel caos.
~ Anna Funder
Si tu tiens vraiment à quelque chose dans la vie, eh bien, fais ce qu'il faut pour ne pas le perdre.
~ Anna Gavalda
Oh que ça m'énerve, ça! Bien sûr, c'est plus facile de se dire qu'on est nul et ne rien faire! Bien sûr! C'est une fatalité! C'est si simple de penser qu'on est maudit! Alors quoi? Quels sont tes projects maintenant?
~ Anna Gavalda
J'aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n'aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.
~ Anna Gavalda
Vai k?dreiz k?ds jau ir uzdrošin?jies jums iebilst? – es pajaut?ju.. Ne jau k?ds. Visa mana dz?ve.
~ Anna Gavalda
Alors c'est une connerie l'amour? C'est ça? ça ne marche jamais? Si, ça marche. Mais il faut se battre. Se battre un petit peu. Un petit peu chaque jour, avoir le courage d'être soi-même.
~ Anna Gavalda
stand the sods up against a wall
~ Anna Jacobs
wouldn't go to war
~ Anna Jacobs
Where do I always find enough courage for one last hope? I am the enemy of this indestructible, pitiless hope which prolongs and intensifies all my pain. I would like to lay hold of hope and strangle it once and for all.
~ Anna Kavan
So this was how he lived now, getting jittery because a bus pulled up near. Well, he was not going on like that. It was not good enough. The one person who could help him had not appeared. He probably never would. But there must be some other way. He knew that there was another way although for the moment he couldn't think what it was. Soon it would come back to him, in a minute he would remember the way out, the way where he was going.
~ Anna Kavan
They are honourable and precious to me, these books, in proportion to their great heroism. They are like members of a suicide squad who do not hesitate to engage the enormously superior enemy, life, upon my behalf.
~ Anna Kavan
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
~ Anna Kendrick
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
~ Anna Lappé
come un cavallo da tiro ha la sensazione che Il suo carico cresce di minuto in minuto, e le zampe gli si piegano, ma gli occhi miti non riescono a guardare indietro, così lei non vedeva da quale parte fluisse questa enorme e inutile vita su lei, e solo sapeva questo: che doveva portarla.
~ Anna Maria Ortese
Curiosity was a mild irritant, but nothing in the face of fear like this. By doing nothing, I determined that nothing would change, and it didn't. People moan about being in limbo, but actually, I found limbo the safest place to be.
~ Anna Maxted
Jeder Mensch bekommt eine bestimmte Zeit im Kontinuum der Menschheitsgeschichte und jeder bekommt seine Herkunft und bestimmte Eigenschaften vererbt, die alles bestimmen, jedenfalls fast alles, was er sein wird. Mit dem Rest freien Willens kann er sich ein Leben lang herumraufen und versuchen, ihm seinen unverwechselbaren Stempel aufzudrücken und sich von der Hypothek seiner beschädigten Eltern zu befreien.
~ Anna Mitgutsch
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
~ Anna Pavlova
To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.
~ Anna Pavlova
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
~ Anna Pavlova