Quotes About Determination

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

Believing you cannot do it, does not make it so, believing you can do it must be your only option.

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

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Secret #24 While some people run fast toward Gold Medals, many others run even faster from German Shepherds.

Great hopes make great men.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

"Go to the d—l!" said the disappointed ghost-hunter. An hour—two—rolled on, and still no spectral visitation... and when the turret-clock sounded at length the hour of three, Ingoldsby, whose patience and grog were alike exhausted, sprang from his chair, saying— "This is all infernal nonsense, my good fellow. Deuce of any ghost shall we see to-night..."

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.