Quotes About Determination

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

No one can take it away from you.

My teachers used to call me a failure

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Don't agonise, organise.