Quotes About Determination

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

The die is cast.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

He who limps still walks.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

Genius is only great patience.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

The way to get ahead is to start now.