Quotes About Determination

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jeweled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

King Kong would have made it to the top if only he had taken the elevator.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.