Quotes About Determination

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Do it big or stay in bed.

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

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

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

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.