Quotes About Determination

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs

Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

Sesuatu yang hebat tidak bisa dicapai tanpa semangat yang besar.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Jangan sia-siakan waktu anda untuk ragu-ragu dan takut. Laksanakanlah pekerjaan yang ada di depan mata, sebab tugas asaat ini yang dilaksanakan dengan sebaik-baiknya akan menjadi persiapan terbaik untuk masa-masa yang akan datang.

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.

fate is for imbeciles; all is possible to the resolved mind.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. This native determination guides his labor and his spending. He wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind. Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.

sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.

Leaders who are disciplined, determined, consistent, and persistent in developing these know-hows tend to be successful on a sustained basis. In that sense, leaders are made.

NO ACCIDENTS If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you would see You Are A Totally Determined Being