Quotes About Determination

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination

There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons? Yes, ma. Did the wagons stop? No, ma. Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fight. Talk about it after.

Well, I've often been wrong, but this time I was right and they had to pay mind to me or bury me, and mine is a breed that dies hard.

A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am.

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.

stood them off with a Spencer fifty-six until they decided they could have more fun somewhere else with less trouble. You don't forget a man like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Mort was a complete stranger to Kilkenny until he rode in there, half-dead.

Ma'am,' I said, 'I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.

He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. "I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.

Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

If they didn't accept him, the hell with them - he could go his own way.

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it.

Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going someplace you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

One thing I'd learned over the years: never to waste time moaning about what couldn't be helped. If a body can do something, fine—he should do it. If he can't, then there's no use fussing about it until he can do something.

There are two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish , they start out and do it. They become what they want to or they get what they want. They will it.

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

You will leave here at daybreak and you will leave alone. He smiled, showing a fine set of white, even teeth. And if I do not choose to? Bodies do not lie long upon the ground. The coyotes dispose of them.

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