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Quotes About Determination

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
~ Ray Kroc
The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!
~ Robin Williams
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.
~ Roger Bannister
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Each man the architect of his own fate.
~ Sallust
Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
~ Tom Waits
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.
~ Anthony Joshua
I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
~ Barack Obama
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
~ Bhagat Singh
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
~ Walter Savage Landor
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
~ William Powell
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.
~ Idries Shah
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man can't just sit around.
~ Larry Walters
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
~ Confucius
His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
~ Curtis Mayfield
The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
~ David Dunbar Buick
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower