Quotes About Determination

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.