Quotes About Determination

I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the floors of friends' studios, to the Metro. There were days when he had literally no money at all, and after a string of such days he would go to the blood bank and sell his blood. More often than not he spent this money on tickets to the ballet.

While most people are playing it safe and doing everything they can to avoid pain, successful people know that they must face their fears and do what needs to be done regardless of how they feel. They don't necessarily like the hard work, but they're willing to do it because they like the results.

I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Dont' make excuses, make good.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."

Don't make excuses — make good.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.