Quotes About Determination

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.

The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth, the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself!

When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.