Quotes About Determination

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.

news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.

Thomas B. Buell

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder--a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

In wakeful nights, as one may fancy, the wild soul of the man, tossing amid these vortices, would hail any light of a decision for them as a veritable light from Heaven; any making-up of his mind, so blessed, indispensable for him there

to be weak is not so miserable; but to be weaker than our task.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.