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Quotes About Determination

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
~ Esther Peterson
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
~ Susan Rice
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
~ Herodotus
I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.
~ Caterina Sforza
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
~ Akhenaton
Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.
~ Edgar Guest
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
~ Charles Spurgeon
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
~ Appius Claudius Caecus
A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.
~ George S. Patton
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
~ Lance Armstrong
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
~ Andrew Mellon
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The man with courage is a majority.
~ Andrew Young
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
~ Confucius
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
~ Thomas A. Edison
What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
~ Yoshida Shoin
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
~ Winston Churchill
Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again
~ John L. Lewis
I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.
~ Joe Frazier
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.
~ Stirling Moss
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
~ Booker T. Washington