Quotes About Determination

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Motivation triggers luck.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

Keep your promises to yourself.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.