Quotes About Determination

Im Schwierigen liegen die freundlichen Kräfte, die Hände, die an uns arbeiten.

It's possible I am pushing through solid rock in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone; I am such a long way in I see no way through, and no space: everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Character is that which can do without success.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.