Quotes About Determination

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

If it is a failure, I will take the loss.

For this reason, he found religion far more of a spur than a hindrance to his ambitions.

At one point, Bill suggested that if John didn't find work he might have to return to the country; the thought of such dependence upon his father made "a cold chill" run down his spine, Rockefeller later said.27 Because he approached his job hunt devoid of any doubt or self-pity, he could stare down all discouragement. "I was working every day at my business—the business of looking for work. I put in my full time at this every day.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

Nobody ever accused Gates of thinking small.

Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

His tightly compressed lips expressed a fierce determination and a guarded nature.

I ran out of strong.

Do this one thing.

You cut up your feet pretty good, but nothing deep enough to need stitches. That was almost a mile walk and you sick as him, and barefoot to boot. I don't know how you did it. You must love that child dear as life." "I tried not to," Rachel said. "I just couldn't find a way to stop myself.

Look, men, there is Jackson34 standing like a stone wall.

To add a dash of picturesqueness to her career, her husband, it was said, was doing his utmost to get rid of her; and although she had been in an aeroplane disaster, a fatal gala performance, two railway accidents, and a shipwreck, she always came back - smiling.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

If you think you can - you can!

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy. on Challenger disaster

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.