Quotes About Determination

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

The man primarily responsible for the Empire State Building was not trained as an architect, city planner, or engineer. He was not in the construction business, nor in the real estate business. His only direct dealings in real estate were of a personal nature—a mansion here and an apartment or summer home there—until he made the momentous decision to build the world's tallest building.

The deal fell through, but what emerged was Raskob's desire to outdo Chrysler in his new real estate venture. Raskob wanted a building that would literally and figuratively put Walter Chrysler's building in the shade. But nobody at the time could say with any certainty how high the Chrysler Building would be.

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Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

Action requires courage," Thomas said. "Inaction only requires excuses.

Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those numbers on which important calculations or inferences depend. They have no idea of the patience shown by a Berzelius in determining atomic weights; by a Regnault in determining coefficients of expansion; or by a Joule in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat.

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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

She put every ounce of determination she possessed into the song, scoring it in the mode used from the old and wise to the young and foolish. It worked, but just barely.

The hard, dark walls threw her song back until the black hub rang with her defiant music.

She took a deep breath, straightened her shoulders, and began to sing.

If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

I've already been eaten alive once on this trip. I'm not going to let that happen again.

He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point.

If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it.

New York in the '80s is not a bad place. If you can't make there, you can't make it anywhere.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.

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Without acknowledging the potential of defeat, one could not adequately defy it.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.