Quotes About Determination

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Now, go take on the day!

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.