Quotes About Determination

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

We conquer by continuing.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.