Quotes About Determination

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.