Quotes About Determination

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I took the Isthmus, started the Canal, and then left Congress—not to debate the Canal, but to debate me…. While the debate goes on the Canal does too.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not the the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat

at the outset almost every man is frightened when he goes into action, but that the course to follow is for the man to keep such a grip on himself that he can act just as if he was not frightened. After this is kept up long enough it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

Dreams are a dime a dozen. it's their execution that counts

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.