determination

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

Fall seven times stand up eight.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare confess it to themselves.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dreamIs laid upon thee, golden from the fire.Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleamThe black forge-hammers fall on thy desire.Demoniac giants round thee seem to loom.'Tis but the world-smiths heaving to and fro.Stand like a beaten anvil. Take the doomTheir ponderous weapons deal thee, blow on blow.Needful to truth as dew-fall to the flowerIs this wild wrath and this implacable scorn.For every pang, new beauty, and new power,Burning blood-red shall on thy heart be born.Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth's wrongBeat on that iron and ring back in song.

Faith is not to understand, but to feel!

Faith is a kind of spiritual magnet that you polarize.