Quotes About Determination

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

'Twas I that beat the bush,The bird to others flew.

Lost causes may be the best causes—they usually are—but once lost they are never won.

Les ratés ne vous rateront pas.

All the beatings she had suffered had not subjugated her, only taught her prudence and a calm and sly scorn for men's anger.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound him, to humiliate him by a finer effort or a more difficult victory? Without him we might perhaps give up. Having an enemy stimulates us, gives us strength. In him we hope to defeat the universe and the malevolence of fate.

Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.