Quotes About Determination

Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.

Maybe there aren't any jobs," she confided. "But I can't let my mind paralyze me." Every day she'd look in the mirror and repeat to herself: "This is an opportunity," until she began to believe it. The last time I talked to her, she was considering several offers.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible.

A declaration of intention is only the first strategy of financial success, but it is the most crucial one of all.

our state of mind, more than anything "out there," determines our level of success.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more likely to keep going when the going gets rough.

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.

When in doubt, act.

But if we focus on the barriers, we're more likely to encounter them. We achieve what we focus on.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Monocled and effete in appearance, cold and distant in manner, he concentrated with such single-mindedness on his profession that when an aide, at the end of an all-night staff ride in East Prussia, pointed out to him the beauty of the river Pregel sparkling in the rising sun, the General gave a brief, hard look and replied, "An unimportant obstacle.

When he smelled battle afar off, Winston Churchill resembled the war horse in Job who turned not back from the sword, but 'paweth in the valley and saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha.' He was the only British minister to have a perfectly clear conviction of what Britain should do and to act upon it without hesitation.

Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.

Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself

The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war but because it determined that the war would go on.

The drowning man may be saved by a plank or a rope, but there are circumstances in which plank or rope can not avail him. How much better for him to have learned that in himself is the principle of buoyancy.

Concentration is the secret of power.