Quotes About Determination

You can send a man to hell, but you can't make him suffer.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

Better never begin than never make an end.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

can still smile sometimes, but by the time this thing is over I may not be a nice person. And I just lit my seventy-seventh cigarette of this 21-hour day. I'm going to lay down for two or three hours, perhaps I'll sleep … Seize the Time.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Never tell me the odds!

To try to be brave is to be brave.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Courage - and shuffle the cards.

Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When u run, RUN! Full speed. Don't dither or dally even for an instant. let terror have his way, for he's the best friend you;ve got

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.