Quotes About Determination

"Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

God helps those who persevere.

Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

You have to set new goals every day.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath."

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Riding hard for glory.

Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.