Quotes About Determination

It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn't play other people's. Baby steps for a baby band.

Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one missed whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of brith and race.

I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else—learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner—had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected.

Experience has taught me, in fact, that no man should be pitied because, every day in his life, he faces a hard, stubborn problem, but rather that it is the man who has no problem to solve, no hardships to face, who is to be pitied.

notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those

We watches de white man, and we keeps watching de white man till we finds out which way de white man's gwine to vote; an when we finds out which way de white man's gwine to vote, den we vote xactly de other way. Den we know we's right.

To do the most that lies in you, you must go with a heart and head full of hope and faith in the world, believing that there is work for you to do, believing that you are the person to accomplish that work, and the one who is going to accomplish it.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

After having been for a while at Hampton, I found myself in difficulty because I did not have books and clothing. Usually, however, I got around the trouble about books by borrowing from those who were more fortunate than myself.

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

The hardest thing in tennis is to forget the double fault or the missed chances, and most players can't. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look forward to the next chance.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

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Never give up doing what you like :)

We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently