Quotes About Determination

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Plodding wins the race.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.