Quotes About Determination

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.