Quotes About Determination

I thought there might be some grand design I did not understand, but the government's policy clearly was not working, because India was still poor. I was determined to learn more, so I became interested in economics. This book is another unintended consequence of the government's policies.

the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation.

My name is Raghuram Rajan and I do what I do.

A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting.

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Those who refuse to take a step toward their goal because it does not at once reach the goal are likely to stand still or move backward.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Henrik Ibsen hung a picture of August Strindberg over his desk. "He is my mortal enemy and shall hang there and watch while I write!" explained Ibsen.

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. If my mother's friend had said, "Never mind, it's too much work," I'd have blown my top, because I want to beat this damn thing, as long as I've gone this far. I can't just leave it after I've found out so much about it. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

What is your state of soul with respect to mortal sin? Are you firmly resolved never to commit it for any reason whatsoever? . . . In this resolution consists the foundation of the spiritual life.

Though at every point you showed that what you were saying was true, yet I, convinced by that truth, had no answer to give you except merely slow and sleepy words: "At once"—"But presently"—"Just a little longer, please." But "At once, at once" never came to the point of decision, and "Just a little longer, please" went on and on for a long while. . . .

He said it would be good for me, as I grew older, to know that a man always made his troubles less by going to meet them instead of waiting for them to catch up with him, or trying to run away from them.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.