Quotes About Determination

Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

The soul of dispatch is decision.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

A door must either be shut or open.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

Not to decide is to decide.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.