Quotes About Determination

One must have the patience of radium buried beneath a Himalayan peak.

After that I can face the world

It hurts? Good.

Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13

The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

Resolve, and thou art free.

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits Will lift thee to the level of themselves.

Buatlah keputusan, maka anda akan bebas.

If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.

No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.

By the time Papa came on the scene, Georgia had regained self-government and was bound and determined to keep it, despite the best efforts of Yankee imperialists who liked nothing better than to tell other folks how to live their lives.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.