Quotes about Determination
He who despairs is wrong.
- Victor Hugo
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
- Victor Hugo
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
- Victor Hugo
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
- Victor Hugo
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
- Victor Hugo
Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.
- Victor Hugo
Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.
- Victor Hugo
Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.
- Victor Hugo
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
- Victor Hugo
Love is a battle she said smiling, And I plan on going fighting 'til the end. Love is a battle? well, I don't feel at all like fighting, and he left.
- Milan Kundera
A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.
- Paulo Coelho
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.
- Thomas a Kempis