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Quotes About Determination

Man is what he wills himself to be.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.
~ Tom Platz
As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
~ Alexander the Great
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
~ Boris Spassky
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ Georges Clemenceau
A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
~ Carole Lombard
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
~ Booker T. Washington
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
~ Tenzing Norgay
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
~ Éliphas Lévi
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
~ Ronald Reagan
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
~ Drew Bundini Brown
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.
~ Anthony Horowitz
What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.
~ Idris Elba
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
~ Warren G. Harding
The only reason men fail is because of broken focus
~ Mike Murdock
It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.
~ Hans Fallada
Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.
~ Renzo Gracie
We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.
~ Danny DeVito
No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
~ James Boswell