Quotes About Determination

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

It's your body. Tell it what to do.

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

The past does not have the power to undermine your future. Only you can do that.

I've found it's 80 percent psychology and 20 percent skills.

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

We the people will not be silenced. We the people will not be bullied. We the people will not surrender.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.

A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.

Those who have had experience with type are aware of its satanic persistence towards error.

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

A Taurus works hard… and sleeps harder.

Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.

Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.