Quotes About Determination

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

One man with courage is a majority.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

In retrospect I am beginning to think of him as an Atlas who lacked muscle tone but who God damn well decided he was going to hold up the world anyway.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Within the strictures of commonsense reality and personal ability, we can choose to do anything we like in this world … with one exception: We cannot choose what any of our choices will be.

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.

No wonder the man wins all his battles: He doesn't recognize defeat!

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.… But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

On his last legs.

Fight on my men,"says Sir Andrew Barton, I am hurt,but I am not slain; I'll lay me down and bleed a-while, And then I'll rise and fight again".

Unhappy me," quoth she, "and will't not stand? Come, let me rub and chafe it with my hand. Perhaps the silly worm is laboured sore And wearièd that it can do no more.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.