Quotes About Determination

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

My future is one I must make myself.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

If there is no wind, row.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

We will either find a way, or make one.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

God helps those who help themselves.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Don't give up the ship!

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.