Quotes About Determination

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Look, Gail. Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life. Your strength? Your work. He tossed the branch aside. The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

How do you always manage to decide? How can you let others decide for you?

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again.

I hate incompetence. I think it's probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn't make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.