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Quotes About Determination

Victory - a matter of staying power.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Where there's a will there's a way.
~ English proverb
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
~ Epictetus
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
~ Goethe
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Irrevocable as a haircut.
~ Lynwood L. Giacomini
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Johann von Goethe
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
~ Alonzo Newton Benn
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
~ B. C. Forbes
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
~ Lord Byron
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
~ Walter Lippman
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
~ William Shakespeare
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.
~ Tom Monaghan
If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
~ Robert Hillyer
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~ Theodore N. Vail
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If at first you don't succeed, try a little ardor.
~ Author unknown, c. 1960s
If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions!
~ Harry Stine, 1962
If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your result is statistically significant.
~ Author unknown, c. 2010s
If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of unsolicited advice.
~ Author unknown, c. 1960s
If at first you don't succeed, have a beer.
~ The New Yorker, 1991