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Quotes About Determination

You can't hit a home run every time.
~ C.C. Williams, 1959
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~ Author Unknown
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~ Author Unknown
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~ Author Unknown
One may go a long way after one is tired.
~ French proverb
The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.
~ Terri Guillemets
The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.
~ Lady Aberdeen
I am constant to my purposes...
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
...if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage and valour, this night show it...
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
~ Clifton Fadiman, c.1955
Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
~ Author Unknown
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
~ Author Unknown
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
~ Author Unknown
Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.
~ Mike Leigh, Naked, 1993
The road to self-belief is potholed.
~ Nyasha Madavo
Be a stone spiral staircase in a world full of escalators.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
~ Charles F. Kettering
It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.
~ Author Unknown
The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.
~ Author Unknown
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I can, too, be a bitch sometimes
~ Grace Coddington
Where will we get the imagination, the courage, and the determination to reconceptualize the meaning and purpose of Work in a society that is becoming increasingly jobless?
~ Grace Lee Boggs