Quotes About Determination

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

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 where 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.

Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

To spur a willing horse.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.