Quotes about Determination

Se não puder voar, corra. Se não puder correr, ande. Se não puder andar, rasteje; mas continue em frente de qualquer jeito.

determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying

Lord, help me to accept my tools. However dull they are, help me to accept them. And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do with my tools.

A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Look, Gail. Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life. Your strength? Your work. He tossed the branch aside. The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .