Quotes about Determination

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?

The man slept on, indifferent to showers of hail and intervals of brightness, to sunshine on his face and shadow, to the pattering lumps of dull ice on his body and the diamonds into which the sun changed them, until the sun was low in the west, and the sky was glowing. Then, the mender of roads having got his tools together and all things ready to go down into the village, roused him.

You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.

persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal,

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

I have tried so hard to do right.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.