Quotes About Determination

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

The only failure is not to try

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

He [Barry Goldwater] was called "the cheerful malcontent." It takes a rare and fine temperament to wed that adjective with that noun. His emotional equipoise was undisturbed by the loss of 44 states as a presidential nominee. Perhaps he sensed that he had won the future. We -- 27,178,188 of us -- who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.