Quotes About Determination

I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Life is what you make it.

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

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

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.