Quotes About Determination

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Wahiduddin Khan

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Without faith, it is impossible for you to become great.

Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.

You direct the will upon the mind, and use it in determining what you shall believe, what you shall think, and to what you shall give your attention.

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.

There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.

I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten.

If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe until she falls.

I can stand anything I have to stand!

but she's as blunt as a splitting maul." She thinks about that, walking again.

But the day that had started crooked insisted on going crooked, like a cross-threaded screw.

She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.